Dear Sally and list
The way to go is through all midwives joining the College! The
greater the numbers the more power we have to change things.
The College PI deal where all members pay $250 and where both
employed and self-employed midwives are covered for malpractice is a
much better deal than ANF was offering.
The policy also gives all College midwives the opportunity to move
from one practice domain to the other without fear of future
litigation involving malpractice payouts.
Employed midwives can do the odd homebirth without fear of not being
covered and self-employed midwives can work the odd casual shift in
hospital knowing they have their own insurance to supplement any
inadequate vicarious liability payouts.
Plenty of legal adivce is available with the College policy.
The initial $250 premium that ALL members will pay will get cheaper
as the College numbers rise past the 4,000 mark. Who knows how cheap
it will be when we hit the 5,000 members mark?
We will be better off than our NZ colleagues who pay a lot more to
their College.
Cheers
Jan
>Just another thought about ACMI possibilities.
>
>After the really poor outcomes of the ANF staff/client ratio's,
>expecially in the post natal area where I heard 1 midwife to
>10 women... not counting the babies as clients/people at all!!, it
>would be fantastic to see midwives move on mass to the
>ACMI, if they were able to provide PI insurance. If we had a mass
>movement to the ACMI then it could be possible for the
>executive to be paid for their work or to have administrative
>support. This wouold have benefits all round as the ACMI
>executive would have more time to devote to our causes and not be
>burnt out by trying to do the ACMI work plus paid
>employment plus trying to have a life.
>
>Some other possibilities to ponder?
>
>In peace and joy
>Sally Westbury
>
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