West Middlesex Maternity - self referral

[allisbright]

I self-referred to the maternity unit at West Middlesex Hospital three weeks ago. I am yet to receive any communication from the midwives regarding a booking in appointment and am now seven weeks’ pregnant. Has anyone recently self-referred there? How long did it take to hear from them? At what stage of pregnancy did you have your booking appointment?

I had my first child there 18 months ago and recall receiving my booking appointment much quicker and attending the appointment at 8 weeks. I imagine they are under increasing pressure, but wanted to ascertain if this wait was normal.

It’s definitely worth chasing, they didn’t send me a letter so I was fairly far gone before I had the booking appt.

@allisbright hi there, apologies as I’m aware this thread was from a while ago now, but I was wondering what happened with your referral in the end? I’m in the same circumstance now with the same hospital where no one has come back to me and I’ve also left a voicemail and email and yet to hear back. Getting a bit worried now as it’s been a while!

@McClue would you mind sharing how your experience of West Midds has been so far? I'm trying to decide my hospital and torn between West Midds and Kingston!