Women with Individual Needs (WIN) Clinic

The Women with Individual Needs (WIN) Clinic is an antenatal care clinic for women who are pregnant and have a disability or condition affecting their activities of daily living.

Services available

The Women with Individual Needs Clinic has a dedicated midwife and social worker. The midwife provides continuity of antenatal and postnatal care, pregnancy related information and postnatal outreach for up to six weeks after the baby’s birth. This is not a caseload model; the WIN midwife does not attend the birth.

The social worker assesses a woman’s psychosocial needs, provides information about service options, advocacy, practical assistance, emotional and social support, referral to community services and works with her and the midwife to develop a postnatal care plan.

Inclusion criteria

Pregnant people who identify with, or whose service provider has identified:

• acquired brain injury
• intellectual or learning disability
• physical disability
• sensory impairment (e.g. hearing or vision impairment)
• other conditions affecting Activities of Daily Living (e.g. neurodivergent)

As a specialty clinic, WIN will consider all maternity referrals that meet inclusion criteria, even if the Women’s is not the patient’s closest maternity hospital.

Exclusion criteria

• Mental health condition as the primary reason for referral does not meet the criteria for this clinic.
• Outreach services cannot be provided to women living more than 40 km from the Women’s.

Referral instructions

GPs, midwives and obstetricians can refer to the WIN Clinic via the Maternity Referral. Include details about the patient’s disability and support needs in the referral form and indicate patient preference for WIN Clinic.  

For referral templates and general information, go to Maternity referrals.

Patients can also self-refer by calling the clinic, asking at their antenatal appointment, or requesting a maternity referral to WIN via their GP.

Appointments

A midwife clinic runs on Tuesdays. Some appointments are available by telehealth (video and phone).

When a doctor’s appointment is scheduled, the patient sees a doctor for the local area in the Outpatients Department. 

The WIN midwife is available Monday and Tuesday from 9am to 4:30pm and on Friday from 9am to 3:30pm. 

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