Expanding Midwifery Services in Hospital
Dear Dr. Mark Walker, Dr. Virginia Roth and Mr. Cameron Love,
As a midwifery client, I would like to advocate for the expansion of midwifery services in hospital. I am troubled to know that there are people currently on waitlists for midwifery care who will not be able to have a midwife due to restrictions on midwifery hospital privileges. As a proportion of these people will give birth out of hospital and at the birth centre, these restrictions impact choice of birthplace, as well as choice of care provider.
CMNRP recently released a Capacity Plan outlining the needs of our community and identified that “given women in the region requested increased access to midwifery services, midwifery privileging processes at each hospital should be reviewed and opportunities to increase the number of midwifery supported births at OBWC should be explored” :
http://www.cmnrp.ca/en/cmnrp/Capacity_Plan_Final_Report_2019_p4924.html
I look forward to hearing from you on this important issue.
Sincerely,
Mai Ngo