Professor Mary Higgins:

As physicians, midwives and nurses, we work within the guidelines we have been provided with, which are based on the best evidence. Everything we do is evidence-based care. We can then provide individualised assessment to patients based on their circumstances and on the guidelines for best practice at a given time. That, to me, is what "clinically appropriate" means.

The Senator is correct about elective care. We provide that and we are one of the first hospitals to do so, and I am very proud we provide it-----