Carol Brown (Tasmania, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Assistant Minister for Infrastructure and Regional Tourism) Share this | Hansard source

Labor supports the Medical and Midwife Indemnity Legislation Amendment Bill 2021. This bill amends the Allied Health High Cost Claim Indemnity Scheme and the Allied Health Exceptional Claims Indemnity Scheme, to ensure businesses that employ midwives, regardless of their endorsement status, will be covered by the scheme. This bill will expand the coverage of the professional indemnity insurance schemes to a group of midwives who, due to gaps in the current legislation, have been excluded due to their endorsement status. This bill extends the Midwife Professional Indemnity Scheme, or the MPIS, to cover midwives employed by private practices and removes the requirement that midwives must be the sole owners of a practice to receive the cover offered.