Hello all - very new first time pregnant lady (7w) just trying to make sense of how all this works! I am fairly new to London and looking for a west London antenatal consultant & birth hospital (am fully insured so cost not a relevant factor).
So far Karl Murphy and Tariq Miskry are both available and have heard good things - does anyone have any feedback? They attend at the Lindo Wing & the Portland. I've also spoken to Colin Davis who only delivers at the Portland. Are there others I should look at? How do you choose? I assume you don't go and meet them all?!
In terms of hospitals, it will be Lindo Wing, Chelsea West or the Portland. I would rank them in that order but don't have a good sense of why - DH has an (unsubstantiated) preference for CW. Again, any food for thought!
Thanks so much!
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Private consultants & hospitals London - Miskry/Murphy/others?
fruitandflowers · 26/04/2016 06:58
Lindo is excellent and Miskry is fabulous (no experience of Murphy from a patient's perspective but he's also lovely).
TG Teoh is absolutely, hand on heart brilliant. I would trust him above all others (I've worked for him and "know" a huge number of the consultants at the Lindo).
From what I've seen professionally, I would personally go for Lindo over CandW or the Portland.
Also, be careful with insurance. A lot of insurance companies don't cover obstetrics so please, please, please double check your cover. It's a long time since I've seen private insurance stuff so I may well be wrong, but it might be better to be safe than sorry.
Lastly, and most importantly - CONGRATULATIONS! Your life is about to get wonderfully, amazingly, confusingly crazy and it will never be the same again 
Go and have a look around them all and see what sort of feeling you get from the staff. They have open evenings where you can meet a few of the consultants, or you can give yourself a shortlist and speak to their secretaries on the phone to get more of a feeling for them. You might find your list is narrowed because the consultants will be taking holiday or have research plans around your due date
We also looked at consultants who did appointments at St Thomas's Westminster wing and Devonshire place, and delivered at the Portland and CW, because I work in the West End and it made getting to daytime appointments a bit easier. Some will scan you themselves, others want you to have scans at the Fetal Medicine Centre on Harley St or Well Women centre near CW, so that is a consideration as well...
Congratulations 
Thank you! Am very nervous but very excited.
I have checked that Miskry and Murphy are both available which is good. I will have a look at Teoh too. I am not sure how to make a decision ie what would you say the difference between the 3 is? That's a good tip about calling the secretaries, I shall do that! Good tip also about central London appointments - Miskry seems to do his clinics out of Harley St which is v convenient whereas Murphy is great Portland St which is ok but less so. Hmmm. What to do?!
I have doubled checked the insurance and we are definitely covered - I work for an American company and I'm insured out of the U.S. so it's an all singing and dancing policy.
Thank you all. This is a bit overwhelming!
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