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Eligibility, access and collabora2on – past, present and future challenges in Australia Dr Michelle Newton Vice-‐President – Australian College of Midwives
Obstetric Malprac2ce Conference
22nd & 23rd June 2015 Melbourne
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Quality maternal and newborn care
Renfrew et al (2014). The Lancet, 383.
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Childbirth – is it all or nothing?
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“Australia is one of the safest countries in which to give birth or to be born” (Bryant 2009)
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Improving Maternity Services in Australia
However… the report also iden2fies a number of issues with the current maternity care system which include:
Care delivered in hospitals
rather than in the primary care setting
Outcomes for Indigenous
mothers and babies remains
poor
Care in normal
pregnancy provided by
obstetric specialists
97% of women give birth in traditional
hospital settings
High rate of intervention in childbirth
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“… current arrangements for the delivery of maternity services in Australia are not serving all Australian women as well as they should” (Roxon 2008)
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Public hospital
care
Team midwifery
Private obstetric
care
Shared care
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Eligible midwives
Midwives in private practice
Caseload
Publically funded homebirth models
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What is an ‘eligible’ midwife
An applicant seeking to be iden2fied as an eligible midwife must: • being currently registered as a midwife in Australia; • being able to demonstrate the equivalent of three (3) years full-‐2me post-‐registra2on experience as a midwife and evidence of current competence to provide pregnancy, labour, birth and postnatal care, through professional prac2ce review;
• have an approved qualifica2on (or the ability to gain such a qualifica2on within an 18 month period) to acquire the skills required to prescribe scheduled medicines required for prac2ce across the con2nuum of midwifery care.
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To provide Medicare rebateable services
Eligible midwives are required to: • Have a Medicare provider number; • Be working in private prac2ce; • Have professional indemnity insurance; • Have a collabora2ve arrangement with a medical prac22oner and / or a hospital / health service.
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Services that can be provided by eligible midwives under Medicare
• Antenatal care
• Management of intrapartum care ▫ for care provided while admibed in a hospital
• Postnatal care
• Telehealth service
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How many eligible midwives are there??
39
7
53
19
114
3
55 2
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So is this the perfect storm…..
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Or the planets aligning??
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What are the risks here? • Are we crea2ng another turf war? ▫ Midwife vs obstetrician ▫ Midwife vs GP ▫ Private midwife vs hospital midwife ▫ Eligible midwife vs non-‐eligible midwives
• Do we risk the poten2al effec2veness of this model not being truly realised ▫ Lack of collabora2ve opportuni2es ▫ Limited access to public hospitals
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Why are things so different in QLD?
39
7
53
19
114 3
55 2
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Qld has…
And more eligible midwives than any other state….
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The QLD experience
• Premier & Minister for Health commibed to advancing the model through access to public hospitals
• Pilot for visi2ng access conducted at Toowoomba in 2010 ▫ Project midwife employed to establish a ‘creden2aling’ process
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The QLD experience (cont)
Collabora2ve arrangements – determined by the CEO • Consultant on-‐call for the day for birth suite (i.e. staff employed consultant covering the public pa2ents in birth suite) covered the back up for private prac2ce for that day.
• VMOs (without employment contracts) could choose to establish collabora2ve arrangements with Eligible midwives
• The consultant covering the antenatal clinic for the day also contributed to the case review process with the private prac2ce midwives each fortnight.
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Eligible midwives
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Offering real choice
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Relieving the burden on overstretched health services
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Improving postnatal support
• Well supported and resourced home-‐based postnatal services
• Extended postnatal care with the poten2al for midwifery care to con2nue for up to 6 weeks
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Keeping women engaged with services
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“Homebirth is safe for the right women (low risk women who are healthy and informed), with the right midwives (those who are registered, regulated and networked in to the larger hospital network) and in the right systems (with effecGve consultaGon and referral systems with obstetricians and other providers, in a respecHul collaboraGve model)”
(ACM Media Release 19th June 2015)
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“Homebirth is safe for the right women (low risk women who are healthy and informed), with the right midwives (those who are registered, regulated and networked in to the larger hospital network) and in the right systems (with effec6ve consulta6on and referral systems with obstetricians and other providers, in a respec;ul collabora6ve model)”
(ACM Media Release 19th June 2015)
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Quality maternal and newborn care
Renfrew et al (2014). The Lancet, 383.
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