GP with Obstetric SI?

**dotvicky** · 18-09-2009, 01:02 AM

Hiya,

Just out of interest (rather advance planning here - heheh!), can anyone tell me what sort of stuff a GP with Obstretrics as a special interest would do?

Cheers
Vicky

**The P** · 21-11-2009, 09:43 PM

Well they'd mostly be a GP - surprise surprise! But I think potentially complicated pregnancies would be referred by to the GPwSI by other GPs in the practice. Maybe some home deliveries (babies, not Domino's pizza). Unfortunately I don't think it would be much different from regular GP besides seeing more obstetrically-related patients.

http://www.rcgp.org.uk/pdf/ISS_INFO_11_JAN06.pdf

Looking at the list here I can't see that they exist "officialy" - but I am sure they are out there somewhere.

**dotvicky** · 22-11-2009, 07:08 PM

Heya,

Thanks for the response. Yes, I figured I'd be doing mostly GP stuff - there's a local GP in my surgery who looks after contraceptive implants etc. etc. so I wondered if this is what she'd specialised in. The idea of assisting at a home birth would be amazing but I imagine that'd be quite rare - there must be a very small number of women that fit into the gap between midwife care and hospital consultant care.

May ask my GP next time I speak to him/her.

Cheers
Vicky