Antenatal Shared Care (ANSC) is a model where your care is shared between your local public hospital’s maternity unit and an ANSC GP, giving you high-quality, multidisciplinary care at low cost with a Medicare card. Our role is your initial pregnancy confirmation, arranging blood tests and ultrasound scans, and referrals. You’ll then have GP appointments with us at increasing frequency as your pregnancy progresses, monthly, then fortnightly, then weekly, alongside regular hospital maternity visits. Complications like gestational diabetes or a twin pregnancy mean earlier referral into the hospital system.
GP Antenatal Shared care is a model of care which is suitable for women who have a low-risk pregnancy e.g. being fit and well with a singleton pregnancy (one baby only).
Women with high-risk pregnancies or any kind of complication are not suitable for ANSC and will be cared for solely by the obstetrics team who are based at your local hospital.
Examples of pregnancies which are not suitable for ANSC are women with diabetes, multiple pregnancies, women with ongoing medical problems of another nature, or women who have had complicated pregnancies and births in the past.
It is possible to start on the ANSC path, and if problems occur, and care needs to be escalated, you will be taken into the care of the obstetrics team, without the continued involvement of a GP.
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