Table 2

Staff other than midwives providing postnatal care in participating hospitals by hospital category

Profession

Rural

Regional

Metropolitan (non-tertiary)

Tertiary

Totals

(n = 28)

(n = 10)

(n = 8)

(n = 3)

(n = 49)

n*

%

n*

%

n*

%

n*

%

n

%

Mothercraft nurses

2

7.1

3

30.0

3

37.5

2

66.7

10

15.0

Division 2 nurses

9

32.1

6

60.0

2

25.0

1

33.3

18

27.0

Registered nurses

5

17.9

1

10.0

0

-

0

-

6

9.0

Hospitals where only midwives provide postnatal care

16

57.1

2

20.0

3

37.5

0

-

21

42.9

* The number of hospitals in each category who reported employing care givers of each type

Forster et al. BMC Health Services Research 2006 6:83   doi:10.1186/1472-6963-6-83