Does anyone know if appointments will be cancelled with midwives on strike?

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Sorry for the self centred post, I 100% support midwives doing what they need to in regards to striking.

I have an appointment with the obstetric consultant on the 13th October and there is usually a pre appointment assessment with a midwife to check urine/blood pressure etc.

Does anyone know if it's still likely to go ahead or will I turn to find it's cancelled?

Might be worth giving your midwife a call to check? I think it is mostly ante-natal and post-natal appointments that are going to be affected...

I hadn't heard that midwives were on strike, do you have any info about dates etc?

Ah, have seen the BBC News article now.
I also support midwifes fighting to get fair pay rises, but I wonder if the strike will accomplish anything? The only people they are inconveniencing is pregnant women/new mothers who have no power to give them all payrises!

BBC news article for anyone interested
www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-29413903

I'm in the same position - I have a growth scan and antenatal appointment that morning. I called the hospital today to see if it needed to be rearranged in view of the strikes and was told that the ultrasound department are working as normal but there may be some disruption to the clinic afterwards but that this was running with fewer staff than usual.
Call your hospital and check whether you will be affected but clearly not everyone will be (which is good as my mum is taking time off work to come to that appointment with me as DH is working and cannot rearrange)

They are only striking for 4 hours, and not every midwife will be in the union, and even amongst those that are some may decide not to strike. I know that healthcare professionals only ballot for strike action - let alone vote in favour of it - when they really feel they have no choice. It is an inconvenience but the way they are doing it seems very considered and I am sure no pregnant woman will be put at risk by it - eg in Tits case the consultant could easily do the urine dipstick and take her blood pressure themselves.

Gail - no strike ever really inconveniences the very few people who have the power to give pay rises! George Osborne wouldn't be inconvenienced by midwives, firemen, tube drivers, jobcentre workers striking :-(

(I'm a civil servant who's had no pay rise for 5 years and a 0.5% rise this year so it does stick in the craw a bit when other parts of the public sector strike over getting 'only' an x% pay rise, but then I think, just cos I'm getting screwed that's not justification for everyone else to also get screwed. Unfortunately no-one would give a toss if I went on strike!!!)