September 01, 2002

Communications from ACMI

In recent days, there has been quite a bit of comment on the ozmidwifery mailing list regarding the apparent lack of action by the Australian College of Midwives Inc (ACMI) around the issues of current concern to midwives: the professional indemnity insurance issue, the NMAP launch, registration issues for direct entry students etc. It seems that members have equated the lack of feedback and comment on this list to a lack of action generally, and if this is the case, then this needs to be rectified.

I have contacted Vanessa Owen ( President, ACMI) and suggested that someone on the executive be tasked with making regular contributions to the ozmidwifery list so that the wider population knows what they are doing. She tells me that a decision had been made by the Executive not to use the ozmid list for official communications. I appreciate the need for official communication channels, such as their newsletters and journals, but I think that if ACMI is to attract more members and get itself better known, then reaching out to prospective members, students, consumers etc is important. Using the ozmid list to disseminate information and increase their profile is an obvious way to do it. I would think that the majority of people who read the list are not members of ACMI, yet they may feel more like joining if they knew what ACMI was doing, even on their behalf.

Lists like the ozmidwifery mailing list is a simple way of reaching hundreds (and thousands) of midwives and others with vested interests in midwifery. Vanessa says she will raise this again with the executive of ACMI to see if someone will volunteer to be their spokesperson. I hope they realise the enormous PR advantage of being seen to be taking action and that we can look forward to regular contributions from now on.

Posted by andrea at September 01, 2002 06:44 PM

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i totally agree. we as midwives need constant feedback and information pertaining to professional indemity insurance as, as a homebirth midwife who has chosen to move to new zealand to practice independantly, i know i will only ever be returning when midwives practice is viewed and respected as it is in new zealand, only when we can work independantly with indemity insurance. regards, laura paterson

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