Is the government finally about to ban uninsured midwives from attending homebirths?
For the last decade an exemption allows private midwives to attend homebirths without indemnity cover.
Homebirths with limited hospital back up remain one of the most divisive topics in healthcare.
It is an issue in the media again because the Federal Government is looking to end what to many seems a bizarre loophole in the legal demand that every AHPRA registered health practitioner needs indemnity cover before they lay a hand on a patient.
