April 08, 2003

Future Birth tour begins in Perth

The first event in the Future Birth tour (Perth, Western Australia) was very successful - we had a terrific day exploring a number of issues surrounding the emerging vision and plans for midwifery in Australia.

The audience here is always lively. We had a mixture of participants, ranging from the very experienced midwives to current midwifery students, midwifery managers, lecturers and an obstetrician. Perth is the home of the Community Midwifery Program on which the National Maternity Action Plan was modelled, so there was much discussion about this excellent service, the way is was developed and the experiences gained over its six years of operation.

The lack of professional indemnity insurance and its implications for new services and the future of independent midwifery is going to be a hot topic on this tour. It was good to have Vanessa Owen, the President of the Australian College of Midwives speaking, as she was able to update us all on a number of issues, including this one. Sadly, she says that there is still not much happening on the insurance front, but it is not for want of trying.

I’ll report on some of the other topics raised as we travel on through the week. For me, the quote of the day came from Mavis Kirkham, the Professor of Midwifery at Sheffield University. She’s a prolific researcher and midwifery advocate and she spoke about “the rhetoric of choice and the reality of coercion”. This is a phrase I will certainly be remembering - a very accurate and perceptive observation!

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