Stillbirth autopsy funding to go to new coordinator roles to help guide families through process
ABCWhen Hayley and Liam Murphy's twin baby boys Ned and Jack died at 21 weeks from a rare twin-specific syndrome, they wanted to make sure nothing else had contributed to their deaths. Assistant Minister for Health Ged Kearney said she hoped the funding would help families, researchers and eventually policy-makers in an area that the government believed has been "neglected for a long time". Information key for grieving families Professor Adrienne Gordon from the Stillbirth Centre for Research Excellence said the government's focus on increasing the number of perinatal pathologists was needed, but that there were other barriers potentially preventing the number of autopsies from increasing. "These are specialised examinations, and they need to be done respectfully by people with the training and there's been a decreasing number of pathologist training specifically in the perinatal area," she said. "Then an additional 20 per cent or so, you might gain additional findings that you would not have known … and then there's a proportion that there might be something new," Professor Gordon said.
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