Employer has requested to see my maternity notes

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Can anyone advise please? I’m only 10 weeks but have had numerous appointments so far under the recurrent miscarriage clinic for scans and checks to see how this pregnancy is progressing. I have now been told that due to previous cervix surgery I am to be seen frequently by the pre term labour clinic.
I have emailed my employer to let them know I will not be in work (I am a field based rep so many of my customers are 100 miles away) for said appointments. Every time I have offered to show them hospital letters with my appointments on, which have all been ignored up until now.
Last night I received an email stating that they wish to access my medical record via an HR medical officer to ascertain
‘The current state of your health and how this has affected your ability to carry out your role with the Company.

I would also like to ask your permission to contact your GP to obtain a medical opinion on your condition’

I’m horrified! Is this even legal?!
What are your thoughts?
I get the impression this is a thinly veiled attempt to come across as concerned how we I’m reading it as if they are fed up with me taking time off and want to know why.
Any advice, similar situations?
Thank you

@sashh I’m a field based rep so I’m either working or I’m not.

I assume that means driving yourself somewhere and then either selling something or checking everything is OK with a customer.

So thing that could change

different car for your pregnancy
someone else driving you
home office set up for filing paperwork, either looking at the physical set up or having someone come out to you once a week to do the paperwork
fewer appointments in a day
overnight accommodation instead of a long drive both ends of the day

Pregnancy isn't something you can write into a health and safety policy because it is so different for every woman, you can only write in the basics.

What does your h and S policy say? I bet there is something about risk assessments in pregnancy.