Access to Public Maternity Services for Privately Practising Endorsed Midwives Policy

Applicable to: This policy is applicable to all Health Service Providers that provide maternity services.

Description:  The Access to Public Maternity Services for Privately Practising Endorsed Midwives Policy (the policy) sets out mandatory requirements to support safe, high-quality, continuity of midwifery care within the WA public health system by enabling Privately Practising Endorsed Midwives (PPEMs) to access public maternity services through a Licensing Agreement to deliver midwifery services to their private clients.

Under this process, PPEMs will be able to book in and admit women as private patients under their care and provide midwifery care whilst the woman and/or her baby are inpatients.

Under current legislation PPEMs:

  • must hold current registration as a midwife with endorsement for scheduled medicines pursuant to the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law (WA) Act 2010
  • are authorised to access Medicare rebateable services when providing private professional midwife services to patients pursuant to the Health Insurance Act 1973

This policy must also be read in conjunction with:

This policy is a mandatory requirement for Health Service Providers under the Clinical Governance, Safety and Quality Policy Framework pursuant to section 26(2)(c) of the Health Services Act 2016.

Date of effect: 27 September 2018

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