If access to midwifery care and choice of care provider are important to you, I invite you to write a letter regarding the way that the Transfer Payment Agency is requiring that Village Midwifery justify accepting clients outside their catchment area. This is an urgent matter that affects women’s right to choice of care provider, and could potentially limit access to midwifery care if the current policy is not changed. We ask that letters be written by January 31st to policy makers and care-providers: the Ministry of Health and Long Term Care; LHIN (the Local Health Integration Network who plan, integrate and fund local health services); the Transfer Payment Agency; the Association of Ontario Midiwves; the College of Midwives of Ontario; and to midwifery practices in the surrounding area.

You can also sign the petition to the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long term Care, requesting that catchment areas not be used to limit access to care.