The former president of RANZCOG has quit his role on the MBS Review Taskforce, amid growing concerns it is turning into a cost-cutting exercise.

Professor Steve Robson, whose practice focuses on obstetrics and fertility, confirmed he resigned from all his positions on the task force on 2 December, a week before it handed down its report into gynaecology services.

He declined to publicly discuss his reasons for stepping down, but said he had raised serious concerns about the direction of the review with its head, Professor Bruce Robinson, and officials from the federal health minister’s office.

The Canberra-based doctor, who was RANZCOG president from 2016 until November last year, had been sitting on the obstetrics and gynaecology clinical committees.