Dr Kirsten Connan

10/11/2025

Huge thank you to the wider TasWomen for providing cover while I attend board commitments and a conference.

Ongoing education is an essential part of our professional practice as healthcare clinicians. My board role provides a platform to support the education and advocacy for the next and current generation of surgical gynecologists in Australia & New Zealand (privileged to be the first Tasmanian to do this).

See you all towards the end of the week!

15/10/2025

Today is and Infancy loss Remembrance Day.

My thoughts go out to each and everyone who has ever had a pregnancy & infancy loss.

Very few days go by when we don't remember these lives that we have lost.

For those of us supporting families through these times, we remember the moments that hold the deepest of sadness for you.

22/09/2025

leave

Thank you to Dr Amy Correy, Dr Portia Spaulding and Dr David Gartlan who will covering over the next 12 days while I am leave.

To the women & families I will miss during this time, you will have the best of care with our wider TasWomen team.

Signing off to reset and invest in some quality exercise time!

31/08/2025

A huge thank you to the TasWomen team, Dr Gartlan, and Dr Spaulding for covering while Dr Correy and I attended the AGES 2025 Peri-operative Surgical Meeting in Melbourne (ages.com.au).

Packed with lots of amazing speaker on surgical leadership, teams, and clinical updates, we also had a chance to explore Robotic laparoscopic surgery, and the role of vNOTES (vaginal laparoscopic surgery).

Engaging in continuing medical education is such an important part of being a clinician, ensuring you get care from up-to-date practitioners.

07/08/2025

Such an important read about MATERNITY care.

The 2025 BJOG study revealed higher risks of stillbirth and poorer outcomes in standard public care—and yet we continue to sideline the role of specialists. Real reform demands real-time data, not ideological division.The recently published article in BJOG titled "Maternal and Neonatal Outcomes an...

30/07/2025

Healthcare, Lenah Valley.

The TasWomen obstetricians and midwives have now been at Calvary for almost 2 months.

Huge thank you to the TasWomen admin team & midwives who have learnt new processes and systems during this time.

Enormous acknowledgement of the Calvary staff for making us feel so welcome (especially Sally, Saman, Kate, Tan & Leah), and working diligently to create safe expanded services.

Lastly, deep gratitude to the families we have supported with births during this transition time.

We look forward to continuing to support families with pregnancies and births for many years to come.

16/07/2025

Healthcare

We are so fortunate to have Calvary Healthcare in Hobart provide the last remaining private obstetric care service in Tasmania. But the sustainability of private obstetrics remains at risk.

This week the Australian newspaper is running a daily series on the private obstetric crisis. This follows the publication of the BJOG Callander et al article just released (in the comments below).

This conversation should not be about private Vs public.

This conversation must to be centred on the acknowledgement that continuity of care - CoC - seen in private obstetric care models and midwifery group models, and private obstetric care (which see midwives and specialist obstetricians work together) gives better outcomes.

This conversation must also drive solutions that improve the birthing outcomes for ALL women. Keep following these new stories and see the many solutions NASOG (National Association of Specialist Obstetricians and Gynaecologists) are suggesting.