How hard is it to move area and change hospitals?

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Just had a diagnosis for a chronic disease that will need treating for the rest of my life. I've just got into the system in my local hospital, which took a long time and involves a lot of different people (pharmacy, dietician, specialist nurses, consultants). First 2 years of care planned.
DH and I want to downsize. If we moved house, we'd probably end up in the catchment area of a different hospital trust. How hard is it to move to a new trust - I don't want to go to the back of the queue again. Thanks.

I moved hospital due to a house move and I’m getting worse care. Before I moved I was getting annual checks for a blood clotting condition (that I will always have). It’s possible to taste negative occasionally as levels wax and wane, but it doesn’t mean the illness is gone or in remission, it just means your levels were lower range at the time of the test. I’ve been rejected for transfer to a consultant in my new area For this monitoring to continue because my last test was negative (I got pregnant before they could retest and pregnancy can cause false results), and I’ve had children (the condition causes miscarriage). Annoying as the condition also causes about 1/3 of people with it to have a stroke, heart attack or clot, often under the age of 50.

I was pregnant when I moved and had better care in some ways, and (if I’d not insisted they continue as per previous hospital) would have had worse care in others.

Ive been here for 15 months now and oldest child (ds3) is still waiting for follow up for his nut allergy after being transferred!

Thanks for the comments - what you've described is exactly what I'm worried about.

My experience is that hospitals do not have strict policies that mean if you move you have to move your care (Maternity services are I think different).
If you are happy to travel the extra distance then stay where you are, but do make sure they have the correct address details.
GPs do have strict catchment areas,mainly due to potential need for a home visit (do they still happen), but once you have a clinical team you are under should be no need for you to be moved to another unless you ask to.

You don’t have to move hospitals if you don’t want to. We moved 70 miles away from the one I’ve been going to for 16 years but I still go there. When my consultant retires I might change.

That's a huge weight off, thank you.