Womens Health

Unplanned Pregnancy

The British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS) is the UK’s leading abortion service. It has over 70 clinics nationwide and helps around 88,000 women every year. It offers medical (abortion pill) and surgical abortion up to 24 weeks gestation.

The BPAS abortion service includes the following:

  • Consultation - includes full medical assessment, and pregnancy advice and counselling  
  • Medical or surgical abortion treatment
  • Contraception review, supply and fit - methods include pill, patch, ring, injection coil, hormonal coil (Mirena, Levosert and Jaydess) and implant
  • Chlamydia and HIV testing
  • Aftercare

More information:

Menopause & HRT

The menopause is when a woman stops having periods and is no longer able to get pregnant naturally.

The menopause is a natural part of ageing that usually occurs between 45 and 55 years of age, as a woman's oestrogen levels decline. In the UK, the average age for a woman to reach the menopause is 51. However, around 1 in 100 women experience the menopause before 40 years of age. 

Please click here to see some useful resources from Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Trust. 

Cervical Screening

Cervical screening is one of the best ways to protect yourself from cervical cancer.

Cervical screening checks the health of your cervix. It's not a test for cancer, it's a test to help prevent cancer.

You can book your appointment in designated clinics with our nurses.

Breastfeeding

We have made some resources available below to help with your journey and make sure you get you family off to the best start!

For more information follow this Start4Life link from the NHS for all your Pregnancy, Baby, Toddler & breastfeeding needs.

Some handy downloadable guides are below and a link to their 24/7 advice service:

Bump Services

If you have a positive pregnancy test you can now make your own online self-referral for your maternity care, without needing to see a doctor or nurse at the practice.

Our practice is now registered and listed on the online referral portal, so all you need to do, to refer for your maternity care is click on the secure link below and provide the information requested. You will need your NHS number and the name of the practice, with which you must be registered. Important that the correct NHS number is entered to avoid delays in accessing care. Below is the national link for getting a text message with your NHS number as long as you input the contact details you have used to register with the GP.

https://www.nhs.uk/nhs-services/online-services/find-nhs-number/

You can also find your NHS number on your NHS App.

 

The information you provide will be used to process your referral by both the community maternity team assigned to our practice and the booking office of your chosen hospital within Birmingham and Solihull. A copy of your referral will also be shared with us, as your GP Practice, for information.

 

Click on this link or type into your browser using your mobile phone or digital device (laptop/ computer) https://www.badgernotes.net/SelfReferral/CareLocation/BUMP - it is quick and easy and will just take a few minutes. This link can also be used to refer a pregnancy on behalf of someone else, providing you have her consent.

 

IMPORTANT: You need to search for the GP practice site by the POSTCODE in the drop-down list to complete your SPA portal referral. Your referral can only be processed based on the information you provide and can delay your care if incorrect information is provided.


You will be able to select from a number of hospitals to provide your antenatal care and for the birth of your baby; we have a number of birthing facilities:

Hospitals sites include:

Review websites for further information

UHB - Good Hope Hospital

https://hgs.uhb.nhs.uk/good-hope-hospital/

UHB - Birmingham Heartlands Hospital

https://hgs.uhb.nhs.uk/obstetrics-heartlands-hospital/

Birmingham Women's and Children's Hospital

https://bwc.nhs.uk/maternity

 

 

If you would like to refer to any other hospital then please speak with your community midwife at your first ante-natal booking appointment or contact your GP.

Useful information: to support you throughout your pregnancy

Information guides on all you need to know about trying for a baby, pregnancy, labour, and birth.

https://www.nhs.uk/pregnancy/

The Ask the Midwife – a  live zoom session hosted by consultant midwives, Health Visitors, and clinical staff to answer questions on pregnancy, birth and caring for your baby.

https://yourbump.nhs.uk/ask-the-midwife/

Maternity Voices Partnership (MVP) a team of people who provide feedback about local maternity systems to a panel of maternity health professionals from service users on co-production to improve services.

https://gatewayfs.org/our-work/health-and-wellbeing-services/maternity-voices-partnerships-mvps/

Bump (Birmingham & Solihull United Maternity and Newborn Partnership). Uniting maternity services; in Birmingham and Solihull to improve your maternity experience. Together Bump partners offer you personalised care, with more choice about your care – for both you and your baby.

Local Maternity and Neonatal System :: Birmingham and Solihull ICS (birminghamsolihullics.org.uk)

The community midwifery team assigned to your GP Practice will contact you by the time you are Eight to Ten weeks pregnant, or within 2 weeks of receiving your referral, however if you do not hear from the team, by then, please contact the midwife directly via the details listed below:

Community Midwife Office – BHH/ SOL contact details:

0121 424 2726 between 10am – 12non or 2pm - 4pm Mon-Fri

One of the team members will contact you once your referral is processed. If you have any technical problems using the web address please email project.bump@nhs.net