Consumers Supporting Midwifery Care

You are being invited to participate in a research study that examines Ontario’s response to maternity care needs through midwifery. Specifically you are being invited to participate in an interview about how the Ontario health system has assigned roles to midwifery. Your involvement would mean participating in a 30-60 minute in person or telephone interview to be scheduled at your convenience. During the interview, we will ask you questions about one or two policy directions of interest: 1) the creation of two midwifery-led birth centres in 2014 and/or 2) the recent primary care reform discussion paper (Patients first: a proposal to strengthen patient-centred health care in Ontario), which does not explicitly include midwives as part of the reform. You will be asked about what factors led to the creation of these policies, what stakeholders were involved in the decision-making process, what are the goals of the policies and (if applicable) what are the results being achieved.