Interested in home birth, hospital birth or private midwifery care? Questions or comments? Email me or call 0400 418 448.
… women will rally … to protest the … government’s maternity services reforms.
Health Minister Nicola Roxon … announced that Labor would amend draft laws before parliament to make it clear … midwives could only access the Medicare Benefits Schedule and the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme if they worked in collaboration with a doctor.
The Australian Private Midwives Association is concerned the requirement will make … midwives beholden to doctors.
“Placing one profession at the complete mercy of another … makes a mockery of professional regulation in this country,” … “Many choices such as homebirth … may be lost if doctors do not form … agreements with midwives.”
Homebirth Australia … said the government was trying to make homebirths an “administrative impossibility” for women.
Melissa Maimann, Essential Birth Consulting 0400 418 448