Thank you very much for the opportunity to answer that. The answer is, not enough. We have an exodus of midwives, a hemorrhage of midwives from the profession.
We're trying to negotiate system changes. We have very little flexibility in how midwives can work. Some of the working teams are requiring midwives to do team model care, call care. There's no way to use your competency and skills if you can't get up in the middle of the night, or you have a chronic care family member you have to look after or you have some unique issue with your health. There are sometimes no half-time positions for midwives to take. Depending on how the model is funded, the overhead can be crippling.
It's not sustainable in many of the places in the country as it's run right now. We have significant issues.