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Medical Veto - We Own Your Birth

Medical Veto – We Own Your Birth

By Lisa Barrett on August 13, 2010

After lots of births I am rested enough to blog.
There have been a number of blows to midwives over the past few weeks:

The government gave medical veto over women/midwives to the medical establishment.
The Nurses Board of Australia backed it up by forsaking the very crappy recommendations of the Government and adopting the even crappier rules of the MIGA insurance. [...]

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Celebrity homebirth, a blessing and a curse

By Lisa Barrett on July 10, 2010

Another week where homebirth has hit the headlines.  Although I know lots of things have happened in hospitals all over Australia, 1 homebirth transfer has Obs out of the woodwork making up bizarre figures and generally pushing the line that homebirth is dangerous.
Here’s the deal;  If you repeat over and over to the population, homebirth is dangerous and your baby [...]

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Collaboration or exclusion

Collaboration or exclusion

By Lisa Barrett on June 16, 2010

14 Days before the first of July.  The day that every midwife needs insurance to be admitted onto the national register. Commonwealth insurance requires us to have a collaborative agreement and hospital practicing rights. Hospitals all over the country have been contacted and in this research there hasn’t been a single hospital that has a plan to offer [...]

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Collaboration and the midwife

Collaboration and the midwife

By Lisa Barrett on June 11, 2010

It has been a busy week in midwifery as we step into the last days before the 1st July national registration.  chaos is all around us and the once united front of midwives now scrabble to meet impossible requirements while the MC claim a victory.

This is a quote from their latest press release.
“Professional indemnity insurance for midwives will start [...]

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891 ABC radio

891 ABC radio

By Lisa Barrett on June 2, 2010

Homebirth being discussed on ABC radio is South Australia at 9,30am.
Matt and Dave who ask lots of great probing questions to anyone APART FROM the AMA whom they appear to love, even when they demand money for reading pages of research!!!  They have a distinct prejudice against homebirth so there is sure to be and interesting line they will be [...]

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Quality and Safety Framework

Quality and Safety Framework

By Lisa Barrett on May 13, 2010

The long awaited safety and quality framework is finally circulated for us to see and I do love this statement:
This framework is not a legal requirement for a PPM who is exempt, until it is approved in a code or guideline by the NMBA under s39 of the National Law.
This paragraph is totally bizarre,  after all [...]

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Guidelines for midwives insurance

Guidelines for midwives insurance

By Lisa Barrett on May 9, 2010

The government have published guidelines for midwives re insurance. 53 days to go with women not knowing what is happening for their midwives and the product will be available in a few weeks!!  Summing it up for 7500 bucks we can have antenatal and postnatal insurance, birth not included.  We can collaborate in a yet unknown manner and do as [...]

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Draft guide to eligibility

Draft guide to eligibility

By Lisa Barrett on April 23, 2010

Eligibility guidelines for public view and comment by the 27th April and questions to the government that aren’t being addressed. Click on post to continue reading.

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Indemnity Insurance PDF

Indemnity Insurance PDF

By Lisa Barrett on April 19, 2010

A warm welcome to my new blog and big thank you to my amazing computer genius for his months of hard work in reproducing this blog in it’s entirety.  Please click all the buttons and enjoy.
Down to business.  The government for some mysterious reason removed the page that I linked to explaining the new insurance guidelines for midwives.  I wonder [...]

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Government Insurance For Midwives (snigger)

Government Insurance For Midwives (snigger)

By Lisa Barrett on April 18, 2010

Just in case any of you thought that this may have been a mistake. Here is the government insurance. It states you have to be a medicare eligible midwife. Plus the cost of just antenatal and post natal insurance is $7,500. Are they nuts? What do they think we do to women in [...]

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