GP Antenatal Shared Care

A low-intervention, affordable way to prepare for your baby's delivery, in collaboration with several of Sydney's best public hospitals.

ANTENATAL SHARED CARE

What is GP Antenatal Shared Care?

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.

Are you suitable for shared antenatal care?

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.

Advantages of ANSC

Disadvantages of ANSC

Where you'll deliver

Affiliated hospitals

We're affiliated with several of Sydney's public maternity hospitals for shared antenatal care.

Affiliated hospitals

Royal North Shore Hospital

Northern Beaches Hospital

Royal Hospital for Women

Royal Prince Alfred Hospital

St George & Sutherland Hospitals

Auburn Hospital

Westmead Hospital

Canterbury Hospital

Your local hospital determines the shared care protocol you’ll follow.

Why Clinic 66

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Shared antenatal care at a glance

Suitable for
Low-risk, singleton pregnancy
Visit schedule
Monthly, then fortnightly, then weekly
Cost
Low, with Medicare card
Team
GP + hospital maternity unit
Appointments
Before work, some Saturdays
Length
Long, unrushed appointments

Contact Information

In the event of an emergency, go to your nearest emergency department.

How would you like to see us?

Select the option that best suits your location and needs.

In-Clinic Appointment (Chatswood, NSW)

Visit our accredited private day surgery in Sydney for procedural care, physical examinations, and face-to-face consultations.

Telehealth / Online (Australia-Wide)

Secure video or phone consultations from the privacy of your own home. Available to patients anywhere in Australia.