The Ayton and Snainton Medical Practice near Scarborough has said it will cease prescribing medications for the midwifery service with “immediate effect”.
Bosses at the York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust recently discussed a report outlining concerns about a wider trend in the area.
“There are issues across the York and Scarborough community with other GPs no longer prescribing medications for pregnant women,” according to the briefing.
It was recommended that on discharge after birth, the trust “should give a minimum of 14 days medicines and any courses of medicines in full”.
Speaking to the Local Democracy Reporting Service (LDRS), a spokesperson for the trust said that mitigations have been put in place for women who are on “long-term medications during pregnancy and after birth to provide those via the trust’s maternity service”.
“In the meantime, this is a standing agenda item on the trust resilience group and work is ongoing with the NHS Humber and North Yorkshire ICB about this matter,” they added.
However, the trust did not elaborate on the number of medical practices that have ceased prescribing such medications in its area and what reasons GPs had given for doing so.
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