Moved house - no longer in my GPs practice area will I need to change midwife?

[Jg93x]

Hey!

I moved house around 2 months ago just as I found out I was pregnant, and when I was at my GP at the time asking for a midwife referral I gave them my new address.

For whatever reason they’ve only just sent a letter to me now saying that I’m outside of their practice area and will be deducted from their patient list and no longer able to use them.

I was just wondering what happens now as I’m due to ring them next week to arrange my 16 week appointment with my midwife who works from the GP on certain days, do I now need be referred to another midwife by another GP? Do I need to let my current midwife know?

The old GP surgery is still only 2/3 miles max away from me so I just assumed the practice area would be the same!

Im so confused 😂 I told them about the move before I was even assigned a midwife as it took weeks and weeks to hear from my referral.

Has this happened to anyone else before? I’m stressing in case things are gonna take weeks if I need referred again as I can’t ring the GP to confirm til Monday obviously, and I’m a stress head

Any help would be great xx

It might not make a difference. Not all GP surgeries have a midwife so you might of been sent to the same one anyway.

I don't see my local midwife. I was given the option of various locations and chose the one in the same building as my work rather than one at my local GP surgery

I moved mid pregnancy too. As soon as I was registered with a GP I called maternity services and got reassigned closer to my new house (this was good for appointments but also because they will be the team coming out to me post birth). If you haven’t moved far may not make a difference though. I’m sure your current midwife will be able to tell you.

I was too late to change my antenatal classes so just go to the previous health centre for those.

It was all really easy and they were happy to keep seeing me until the new appointment was sorted so don’t worry!

My GP and midwifery services have nothing to do with each other, so much so I self referred to the midwives.

Id phone the midwives up themselves and ask.