FAQs

What is the different between public and private patients?

Private care means an experienced obstetrician will perform your antenatal care and delivery, normal or otherwise, and look after any antenatal, birth or postnatal issues that are obstetrics-related. Public care has many models e.g. midwifery-led care, doctors’ clinics, etc. The delivery, if normal, will be performed by a midwife but if complicated, a doctor will become involved with senior consultant supervision, as the public hospital system is a teaching model where junior doctors train to become obstetrics and gynaecology consultants over many years.

Will I always be available to deliver your baby?

I work and am available to my patients 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. There may be occasions where I may not be able to be present for delivery due to conferences to keep up-to-date or occasionally personal leave or illness. There will always be an experienced obstetrician on-call to cover. An on-call group roster covers weekends when I may rarely be unavailable.

What do the private fees cover?

Private health insurance will cover all in-hospital stays and procedures. The fees charged in rooms are in part covered by Medicare. These fees cover the day-to-day costs of staff employment, rooms rental, equipment and part of the medical indemnity insurances.