🧵 10/10 Ontario needs #MidwivesEverywhere! Tell your MPP: Ontario families want, need and deserve midwifery care, now.

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9/10🧵 As Ontario sets its budget priorities, midwives cannot be left out.

Call on your elected representatives to prioritize investment in midwifery in the upcoming budget.

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8/10🧵 Midwifery is a smart investment.

Midwifery care:
- reduces costly interventions
- lowers the C-section rate
- diverts hospital admissions
- delivers excellent outcomes

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7/10🧵 Investments in midwifery growth and education are sorely lacking.

Despite funding increases for training in other health-care fields, midwifery education has seen no new funding since 2010.

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6/10🧵 Ontario needs #MidwivesEverywhere! But the current distribution of midwifery services largely excludes Indigenous, northern and rural communities.

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5/10🧵 And yet, the demand for midwifery care in Ontario consistently outpaces the supply of midwives.

Every year, thousands of families who want midwifery care are unable to get it due to a shortage of midwives.

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4/10🧵 Midwives are part of the solution Ontario needs, right now.

When midwives provide care in their scope of practice, family doctors and NPs can respond to other health care needs. #MidwivesEverywhere

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3/10🧵 This crisis is not only about the number of providers—it's about ensuring the right kinds of providers are working in the right places, and to their full scope of practice.

#MidwivesEverywhere

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2/10🧵 More than 2.5 million Ontarians are without a family doctor or nurse practitioner. Entire communities lack access to consistent, high-quality care.
Midwives are primary care providers who can help.

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