Can I have care at Kindred if I don’t have private health cover?

To have your complete pregnancy, labour, birth and postnatal care with our team, you do need to hold appropriate private health cover – this means you have obstetric cover where you are able to be admitted as a private patient in a private hospital. Some families who don’t have this level of cover chose to be self-funded private patients, or others chose to have shared care with a public hospital.

We can provide shared care for patients who plan to deliver as a public patient. This means having your pregnancy care with Kindred in our clinic, and six weeks of in-home midwifery support after birth – however any inpatient/hospital care (including labour and birth) is provided by hospital staff at your local hospital.This allows you access to the benefits of continuity throughout pregnancy and postnatal period, which may be more than a local hospital can offer.

Having shared care with Kindred does not change your access to a choice of public hospitals; allocation to hospital is based on your residential address and outside of the control of our practice.

If this is something that might be appropriate for you, we welcome you to discuss your options with the Kindred team. Information sheets on options of care without private health insurance are available by request.