Clinical outcomes and financial estimates for women attending the largest private midwifery service in Australia compared to national data: a retrospective cohort study.

Background And Problem: Multiple barriers to national scale-out of private midwifery practice in Australia exist.

Aim: To describe and compare maternal infant health outcomes of the largest private midwifery service in Australia with the national core maternity indicators and estimate the financial impact on collaborating public hospitals.

Methods: A retrospective cohort of 2747 maternal health records from 2014 to 2022 were compared to national indicators.