Past Due Date: No Solution to Midwifery Insurance Gap

Published on November 18, 2023

A month after the Australian College of Midwives identified a gap in professional indemnity insurance for privately practising midwives, the loophole has still not been closed. On Oct. 17, the college notified the federal health department that the only available insurance policy for endorsed midwives has an exclusion for intrapartum care (early labour) provided outside of a hospital. Australian College of Midwives chief midwife Alison Weatherstone told AAP that, while they had been working closely with health department and government stakeholders, it was unacceptable that a solution had not yet been found. “A month at the end of a woman’s pregnancy is a very long time, and to be impacted during that time is also unacceptable,” Ms. Weatherstone said....

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