Not one to complain about the nhs, but I really hate being spoken to like I am stupid.
Currently 12 weeks pregnant.
Booked in with midwife last week. Booked a little late as I had a threatened miscarriage at 8 weeks, didn’t refer myself to community midwife until after early scan. The earliest booking appointment was last week.
So the midwife said at booking appointment my records go over to the hospital, this generates my scan. Great. She said she was heading it as urgent as I was already 11+ weeks. The scan and combined screening for downs needs to be carried out before 13+6 for accuracy. The nhs website says this. I’m pretty sure that this is accurate.
I hadn’t heard anything about appointment, so I rang hospital to say is the appointment made, (thinking it will probably be in the next week or so) and I will need I sort time off work etc.
The hospital have not received my records at all.
They told me to call community midwife as time is getting on. I call surgery midwife off until next Wednesday.
So the gp receptionist said she would ask the gp to look into it as I will be 13 weeks by then, and if the hospital still haven’t received my referral the midwife would need to resend it and get an appointment arranged at the hospital within less than a week.
I get a (very patronising) call back from the gp saying there is nothing she can do, and it doesn’t matter at all the scan is “just to check baby is growing properly”. I queried the fact that I thought the combined screening should be done before 13+6, she replied no don’t worry it can be done later.
This is wrong. The nhs website says it’s more accurate before 14 weeks.
I don’t know what I’m more annoyed about, the gps unwillingness to have a check and find out where the referral is or the incorrect information she has patronised me with!
I don’t blame the midwife, it may not even have been her error that the referral has gone astray, but the gp has just really annoyed me.