Welcome to HAS

Homebirth Access Sydney

Homebirth Access Sydney focuses on supporting homebirth families.

Pregnancy and birth are not an illness.

Homebirth Access Sydney (HAS) is a non-profit, community-based organisation. Our focus is on supporting homebirth families and increasing the access to birthing choices – especially homebirth - for women in NSW.

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The Heart of Parenting ... a better world begins at home: 2 DAY COURSE in LANE COVE

Submitted by Jenny Carleton on 20 April 2012 - 5:04pm

Based on the principles of Nonviolent Communication & Connection Parenting

2 Consecutive Sundays

22 July & 29 July

in Lane Cove

When: 2 Consecutive Sundays - April 29 & May 6 2012


Place: Currambena Primary School, 205 Longueville Road, Lane Cove

Time: 9am till 4.30pm

Cost: $300 per person, concession $250, couples $450

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HAS submission to ACM re: Interim Homebirth Position Statement & Guidelines for Privately Practicing Midwives

Submitted by Virginia Maddock on 23 September 2011 - 3:40pm
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Combined Response to the Australian College of Midwives Draft Position Statement 26/5/11

Submitted by Virginia Maddock on 27 May 2011 - 1:40pm
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Agreed Homebirth Position Statement

Submitted by Virginia Maddock on 27 May 2011 - 1:29pm

This is the Homebirth Position Statement that was originally endorsed by Homebirth Australia, Maternity Coalition, Australian Private Midwives Association and the Australian College of Midwives [ACM] in 2009. ACM's current draft has not been endorsed by any other homebirth stakeholder groups. Please see the above response to the new draft...

 

 

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NMBA Submission re Insurance May 2011

Submitted by Virginia Maddock on 19 May 2011 - 1:48pm
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HAS submission to Inquiry into the administration of health practitioner registration by the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA)

Submitted by Virginia Maddock on 19 May 2011 - 1:46pm
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MIDWIVES PRACTICE RESTRICTED - COMPLAIN TO SENATE by THURSDAY 14th APRIL (template provided)

Submitted by Jenny Carleton on 18 May 2011 - 11:58am

The problem

There is currently a major problem occurring with the process of complaints about midwives.  Several midwives around the country have had conditions placed on their registration due to complaints. These complaints are mostly from hospital staff when a labouring woman and her partner are transferring from a homebirth. Most of these restrictions demand that the independent midwife can only practice midwifery within a hospital birthing unit. This brings their homebirth practice to a screaming holt, leaving their women without a care provider and the midwife without an income!

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New collaborative arrangements for midwives (posted Feb 2011)

Submitted by Katharina Logan on 9 February 2011 - 1:42pm

what's happening in practice?

As you might recall from our November 2010 e-newsletter, the National Health (Collaborative arrangements for midwives) Determination 2010 was signed into law in mid July. The Determination defines the "collaborative arrangements" that midwives are required to demonstrate before a woman can receive Medicare rebates.

The Determination provides four options for collaborative arrangements. Each option requires the midwife to have some form of permission from a doctor.

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Safety of planned home births

Findings of British Medical Journal
study cannot be relied on

Six senior health professionals and academics refute the findings of a study that linked planned home births with a twofold higher rate of neonatal mortality compared with hospital births, in a letter to the British Medical Journal, published 27 July 2010.

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