In Tassie, there is a requirement from the Nursing Board that all nurses and
midwives may have to provide proof of professional indemnification. I
understand that other state governments may be looking at including this in
their own nursing acts, if they have not already done so.
The Nursing Act (Tas.), 1995, Part 3, states that: "The Board may determine
that an applicant is not entitled to be registered or
enrolled as a nurse if it is not satisfied that the applicant, when
practising, will have
adequate professional indemnification arrangements."
There is not mention however, of how midwives are supposed to find an
insurer!
Julia M
So Far, there has been a hunt high and low, far and wide and no luck yet on
finding a company willing to insure midwives in private practice. Guild has
not so yet told me that my insurance will not be renewed and mine is due on
August 1st. I would dearly love to know what is behind this obviously panic
reaction from Guild as not even their branches knew anything about the
change until midwives started enquiring. What will happen to our clients?
we haven't addressed that yet as we are still hopeful that someone will come
forward with a policy. Not all branches of ANF handle PI insurance even for
nurses. We can still practice as midwives, but contracts with government
bodies and arrangements with hospitals will be affected as they are the ones
requiring the insurance. Regards, Mary Murphy
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