RE: Antenatal referrals
Dear GP Colleague,
During this COVID-19 pandemic period, please kindly encourage all women to self-refer to all NEL maternity units to reduce the delays in allocating antenatal booking appointments and facilitating timely screening. This will prevent current delays identified in the system related to processing antenatal referrals via ESR portal.
We also ask that you should please respond promptly to information requests about previous medical history of the pregnant women within three working days to ensure that we continue to provide optimal care.
Below are the links for the self-referrals into maternity within East London Local Maternity System:
Barts Health NHS Trust (all sites):
https://www.bartshealth.nhs.uk/maternity
Queen’s Hospital
https://www.bhrhospitals.nhs.uk/pregnancy-referrals/
Homerton University Hospital
https://www.homerton.nhs.uk/maternity-services/
Alternatively women can contact maternity units on the numbers listed in attached.
If you have additional queries, please contact us on elhcp.maternity@nhs.net or 07717 527 365.
Sincerely yours,
Dr Gloria Rowland
Senior Responsible Officer,
East London Local Maternity System