RE: [ozmidwifery] Re: Private Insurance companies covering independent midwives?

[Sally Westbury]

I think the view from HBF is that it is no fault of the midwives that they cannot purchase professional indemnity insurance and should not be punished for something that is out of their control.   Sally   -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marilyn Kleidon Sent: Wednesday, 25 February 2004 10:13 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ozmidwifery] Re: Private Insurance companies covering independent midwives?   Alphia:   I think these are different insurance companies: some people have private health insurance that will reimburse for homebirths. Different beings to public indemnity insurance purchase by the independent midwives.   marilyn ----- Original Message ----- From: Alphia Possamai-Inesedy To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 23, 2004 2:52 PM Subject: [ozmidwifery] Re: Private Insurance companies covering independent midwives?   Jen, I was not aware that this was the case - do you know which private insurance companies do this?  I find it surprising considering that independent midwives are not covered by indemnity insurance.  I am currently finishing a subsection of my thesis on the indemnity crisis and found your news interesting.  If you could help me out with this I would grealty appreciate it. Take care Alphia At 03:47 AM 17/02/2004, you wrote: Some private insurance companies cover the fee of a midwife in private practice.   One to one care with a midwife she's known throughout pregnancy & birth is her best bet for successful breast feeding.   Best of luck, Jen "Melissah & Scott @ Spilt Art" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have someone who is about 18 weeks pregnant and fairly recently moved to the blue mountians (Katoomba) She is unsure of where to birth at the moment and is concidering birthing at nepean private to make use of her private health insurance. She is hoping to stay in hospital for about 5 or so days, and at nepean private her husband can stay with her. She wants to stay in for a few days because she is nervous about being able to breastfeed and take care of her bub, as she feels she has not much idea of what she is doing. So I sugested to her that maybe a doula could be of great benifit to her by the way of childbirth info, birthing and post natal care/advice etc. She is quite interested in talking to some doulas in the area.   So, I thought Id try to get together a list of Doulas in the area to pass on to her. If anyone is interested, could you please either reply or email me directly with all your details [EMAIL PROTECTED] I know your around Abby, but I cant find your contact details.   Thanks! Melissah www.Splitart.com Try the new improved Yahoo! Australia & NZ Search Alphia Possamai-Inesedy Ba (Hons.) PhD. Candidate School of Applied and Human Sciences Bankstown Campus, University of Western Sydney UWS Locked Bag 1797 South Penrith Distribution Centre NSW 1797 Australia Phone: 02 97726628 Fax: 02 97726584