I'm 14 weeks pregnant. I have been under midwife care at hospital A. I recently had a serious complication, and was blue-lighted to specialist hospital B. After a week on the ward I was discharged with 2 weeks of the medication that is keeping me and my unborn child alive. I was told hospital B would instruct my GP to keep prescribing this medication for the rest of the pregnancy.
It took more than a week before hospital B's letter arrived at the GP, only for the GP to tell me that this drug is restricted, cannot be prescribed by a GP, and in pregnancy should be prescribed by my hospital (A). He told me to contact hospital A urgently.
Hospital A says they know nothing about my condition, I don't have a consultant and can't do anything until I am referred to them (by the GP) and are given my notes from the hospital stay. I call GP again, says he can refer, but he doesn't have the notes on my condition (hospital B has them). I call hospital B, they say they believe I was referred to hospital A a week ago, but they will check and call back. They don't call back. Call again, and it's the same story. I start stressing about the few days of medication and they tell me to go back to the GP...!
I'm sick, I'm pregnant and I'm having a really hard time, on top of that playing phone tag between two hospitals and the gp for medicine to save my life is just too much to deal with.
AIBU to think it shouldn't be a sick patients job to chase doctors to get hold of medicine? Why on earth are critical medical notes being sent slowly by post from one place to another in this day and age?
This isn't NHS bashing, they saved my life, and without them I couldn't afford this medication. But surely we need to spend more money to update these systems, or people will fall through gaps.
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butterfliesandzebras · 20/09/2016 18:02
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