Maternity Service in Bristol
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not only by referring those cases which he desires the consultant to see but by filtering all his cases through the consultant clinic at least twice, early in the ante-natal period and again at the thirty-sixth week, even if he is delivering the patient in her own home or in a General Practitioner Hospital or Home. In other cases the consultant may reciprocate by getting the general practitioner to supervise the ante-natal care of some of his cases that are eventually to be delivered in hospital for medical or social reasons. The consultants may not like this because it would mean more work for them, but with the facilities available to them in the form of Registrars this would largely be a matter of delegation oi responsibility. Its advantages are that patients would have contact with hospital, and practitioners would have done for them blood tests and ancillary examinations, for example, X-ray of the patient's chest if required. Another advantage would be that a few patients could be booked for hospital at an earlier date due
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