Our Vision and Approach
Childbirth Choices Matter is a campaign run by and for birth activists.
Our Approach
We do not represent a specific company but we are receiving campaign support from White Ribbon Alliance, who are a registered charity in the UK, with a global alliance across many countries in the world.
We are working alongside many self employed, independent midwives and health professionals to really listen to the needs of birthing women and people and to come up with a sustainable solution that allows for choice in care provision and options for how midwives choose to employ themselves.
We are aware that there are other options for non NHS midwives, and these options are great for many midwives and exactly what they choose to do. For others, the freedom to practice in a fully self-employed way, whilst maintaining high standards of care in line with their regulators, is not currently possible within the commercial insurance sector.
We believe that providing a comprehensive indemnity insurance product that allows for midwives to operate and deliver their practice, their way, is really vital and is an issue that many midwives feel passionately about.
The Vision
We have a vision to create an insurance product and an access fund which will allow women and birthing people to access care from self employed, professional midwives without being tied to the premiums set by commercial insurance companies. We understand that insurance is absolutely necessary for practising midwives and that the cover should be at a level that represents the claims that could potentially be made. We are therefore raising funds, across many streams of income to support this fully independent insurance product. We need a lot of money to achieve this, and we have a team of fundraisers working tirelessly to make it a reality. Over the coming months we will have lots of different ways in which you, your friends and fellow midwives can join in to make this long term vision a reality. We are extremely grateful to all of you for your support and feel that this approach is feminist action for a very real area of inequality within private health care provision.
One of the ways that you can give is via our donation platform, which aims to bring in some of the money we need. Please feel free to share this with people and know that what we raise here will match fund other income sources.
We know that the product can be developed and all funds raised are being paid into the bank account of White Ribbon Alliance, who are a registered charity with a board of trustees who support this campaign. This means that we can also claim gift aid on your donations and are able to apply for grants to support the start up of the access fund for birthing women and people. Please check back regularly to this website for news of upcoming events and ways to help us achieve this vision. And thank you so very much for your support!
Our Approach
We do not represent a specific company but we are receiving campaign support from White Ribbon Alliance, who are a registered charity in the UK, with a global alliance across many countries in the world.
We are working alongside many self employed, independent midwives and health professionals to really listen to the needs of birthing women and people and to come up with a sustainable solution that allows for choice in care provision and options for how midwives choose to employ themselves.
We are aware that there are other options for non NHS midwives, and these options are great for many midwives and exactly what they choose to do. For others, the freedom to practice in a fully self-employed way, whilst maintaining high standards of care in line with their regulators, is not currently possible within the commercial insurance sector.
We believe that providing a comprehensive indemnity insurance product that allows for midwives to operate and deliver their practice, their way, is really vital and is an issue that many midwives feel passionately about.
The Vision
We have a vision to create an insurance product and an access fund which will allow women and birthing people to access care from self employed, professional midwives without being tied to the premiums set by commercial insurance companies. We understand that insurance is absolutely necessary for practising midwives and that the cover should be at a level that represents the claims that could potentially be made. We are therefore raising funds, across many streams of income to support this fully independent insurance product. We need a lot of money to achieve this, and we have a team of fundraisers working tirelessly to make it a reality. Over the coming months we will have lots of different ways in which you, your friends and fellow midwives can join in to make this long term vision a reality. We are extremely grateful to all of you for your support and feel that this approach is feminist action for a very real area of inequality within private health care provision.
One of the ways that you can give is via our donation platform, which aims to bring in some of the money we need. Please feel free to share this with people and know that what we raise here will match fund other income sources.
We know that the product can be developed and all funds raised are being paid into the bank account of White Ribbon Alliance, who are a registered charity with a board of trustees who support this campaign. This means that we can also claim gift aid on your donations and are able to apply for grants to support the start up of the access fund for birthing women and people. Please check back regularly to this website for news of upcoming events and ways to help us achieve this vision. And thank you so very much for your support!