I live in a very rural area where the catchment for maternity services falls to one small town which covers a fairly large area. Midwife appointments are held in the children's centre and no other health service appointments are held there, so if you are there and waiting for an appointment it is pretty obvious that you are seeing a midwife.
What also concerns me is that I overheard a conversation between two colleagues who have recently both announced that they are pregnant, saying that when you go for your appointments you have to sign into a book where you can see everybody elses names that have had appointments with the midwife that day. One of my colleagues also said that she recognised all but two names on the list and that was how she found out that so and so and so and so was pregnant!!
I don't want to tell anyone before my 12 week scan and I certainly do not want my colleagues to know before then. I'm only 6 weeks but feel quite reluctant to make my booking appointment.
Has anyone else had this problem? Is there anything I can do or am I just being over sensitive? But surely signing into an appointment book where you can see the list of other patients is breaching confidentiality isn't it?
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Quite concerned about the privacy/confidentiality of my booking appointment.
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mampam · 25/03/2014 13:00
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