Working clinically for NHS and hyperemisis

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I'm an NHS midwife and haven't yet told work I'm pregnant. I'm about 6-7 weeks and have had nausea for the last few days. Today, I've vomitted 7 times already, in two of my previous pregnancies I was an inpatient for weeks at a time due to hyperemisis. I was self employed then though. Has anyone got any experience of needing time off work due to pregnancy sickness (likely to be weeks not days) and how the NHS deal with this? I think it is unlikely that I will be able to work whilst feeling so ill - the smells ect on labour ward have been setting me off retching for the last week but now I'm actually vomitting and there's no way I could provide safe 1:1 care if I'm needing to leave to be sick constantly.

Im an nhs nurse and as far as im aware time off sick with anything pregnancy related doesnt cause you to trigger a sickness stage.
There is a point where if continuously off sick they could make you take mat leave early but that isn't until much later in the pregnancy.
Have as much time off as you need to!

I had severe hyperemesis (my personal record was twenty vomits in one day.)

they can’t count pregnancy related sickness apart of any absence measures etc.

i basically ended up just being off sick for the whole pregnancy and then going on maternity.

Pregnancy is a protected characteristic under the Equality Act. I have an employment lawyer in my family who is quite gung ho about staff relations, but she always advises employers not to even touch a risk of discriminating against a pregnant woman. I would tell my manager asap.