National Breastfeeding Committeewww.moh.govt.nz/nbc
In early 2006 the National Breastfeeding Advisory Committee (NBAC) was established with the specific mission to improve the nation’s health and wellbeing by promoting, protecting and supporting breastfeeding. The committee was established to provide expert advice to the Director-General of Health, working with the vision of making breastfeeding the norm in New Zealand.
The NBAC has now come to the end of its two year term, and produced its advice to the Director General of the Ministry of Health in the form of the National Strategic Plan of Action for Breastfeeding (the Plan). The NBAC’s work directly supported the Ministry’s Health Target on Breastfeeding, and the new Committee’s role will continue to provide DHBs with information and frameworks to help them implement their action plans for breastfeeding.
The NBAC was dis-established in its current form, and re-established as the National Breastfeeding Committee (NBC) with a role as a group to guide implementation of the Plan. The NBC is made up of nominated members from the breastfeeding/public health sector with a range of perspectives and backgrounds.
The NBC’s current term runs until 30 June 2009, when its role will be reviewed.
|
|