The New Brunswick government wants to expand the types of services midwives can provide, allow students to train in the province and add three new positions to the Midwifery Council of New Brunswick.
N.B. midwife hopes changes will help relieve burden on strained health-care system
Hope Edmond · CBC News
· Posted: Mar 31, 2026 5:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 1 hour ago
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The New Brunswick government is looking to change the role of midwives. (IRINAZHARKOVA/TWENTY20)
The province is looking to change the role of midwives in an effort to expand the service and boost recruitment.
A bill tabled earlier this month would expand the scope of practice for midwives, allow students to do clinical placements in New Brunswick and add three new positions to the Midwifery Council of New Brunswick, the governing body that oversees the profession.
Under the current act, the practice of midwifery includes “the care, assessment and monitoring of women during normal pregnancy, labour and the postpartum period.”
In an interview, Health Minister John Dornan said the law, if passed, would allow for midwives to work to their trained scope by providing care to people throughout their childbearing years by providing contraceptive advice and other routine procedures.
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