Living in Wokingham but registered with Frimley

[HopefulAussie]

Hi all,
I'm really hoping that someone can provide me with some advice because I'm having trouble getting any clear information and my midwife doesn't appear to communicate.
I am 11 weeks pregnant and live in Wokingham. My GP gave me the option of Royal Berks or Frimley Park and since I'd heard much better things about Frimley we went with them.
I've since found out that I'm technically out of catchment (GP never mentioned this) and don't qualify for their antenatal and parenting classes because of my postcode. I also don't appear to qualify for the Royal Berks classes because I'm not registered with them.
Are there any other Wokingham people who have experienced this problem? How did you get around it?
As a secondary issue, I don't seem to be permitted to ask questions on the Frimley Health app and I have important prescription and functional questions that have nothing to do with the GP, and I've been told that I can't call the mamas line until I'm 16 weeks which will be way too late and I will have run out of my medication.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated. At the moment I feel very alone and isolated. Feel like they are definitely not there for me and my GP surgery is just awful so no help.
Thank you all :)

Sorry if this isn't overly helpful but it might give you a bump if nothing else... during both my pregnancies prescriptions were still issued by my GP. Even after I'd seen the midwife, for example when I needed stronger folic acid which she'd told me I needed, I then had to call the GP to request the prescription.

So with regards to your medication which will run out, can't you see a GP as normal?

Ask to speak to a consultant midwife as they will be able to help you sort this out.

Thank you SurreyMum. The difficulty is that all my medication has previously been prescribed by a private IVF clinic which has now discharged me and the GP has not only said they want nothing to do with it, they also don't understand what I'm on, why and how to manage it. They admit it's out of their knowledge base and insist that a consultant tell them what to do in writing. When I tried to talk to my previous IVF consultant and pass on the message the GP gets upset and says the request can't come from me. But I no longer have access to my previous consultant and Frimley has said that I don't get to speak to a consultant until 20 weeks. Way too late. I will try to talk to the GP again

Thank you zurala. Is this different to the normal midwife I've been assigned? Do you know how I would get in contact with a consultant midwife?

@HopefulAussie My private IVF clinic prescribed me all of the medication I needed (up to 10 weeks). For me this was progesterone and oestrogen Was your IVF private or nhs? If it's private, I wouldn't expect the nhs to then be providing the meds, I would be going back to your IVF clinic.

Also, interested to know how you're finding the care at Frimley as I'm considering them if my current FET cycle is successful.

Sounds confusing.

But to be honest (in my very non-expert opinion) I think the GP is being quite reasonable and it sounds like the issue is with the private clinic?

I've no knowledge of IVF, but when I've been seen privately for other matters, I've always been copied on a discharge letter which has been sent to me GP, saying we done x or diagnosed y and ongoing medication needs to be blah, blah, blah.

Or as pp said they should have provided everything?

Lived in wokingham and had baby at frimley nearly 2 years ago - have you got your midwife to sign you over to Frimley. I went from having midwife appointments at my doctors surgery to brants bridge and then after birth had Berkshire midwives etc
Don't think there are actually antenatal classes anymore in either location apart from one quick session so did NCT.
Frimley scans and just all of it was so much better once I moved but who knows what experience I would have had (just used to live and knew Frimley better etc and didn't want to give birth in Reading traffic)
Hope you get it sorted soon

Hi @FeralCats99 . I believe so. I've been assigned a midwife at a hub (just a tin box) at Skimp Hill Bracknell but have been registered with the Frimley app. Is this a Frimley midwife or should I request that I get a midwife down at the actual hospital? I was actually looking forward to getting to know the hospital itself rather than a shed in Bracknell so happy to travel further for my appointments if it will make everything else easier

You only get a midwife at the hospital when you give birth and then have a rotation of midwives/HCAs when on the ward before you go home.
This is exactly the same now I'm officially in the Frimley area for this pregnancy currently - have a community midwife but won't have a hospital one.
The paper free app Frimley use now is so annoying! I've not worked out where to request things but midwife just does it at appointments. How many weeks are you now, I'm 26 weeks.
Hope that helps