Referrals to our miscarriage clinics

Tommy’s National Centre for Miscarriage Research has recurrent miscarriage clinics in three different sites in the UK:

• Birmingham Women's Hospital
• University Hospital Coventry
• Queen Charlotte's & Chelsea Hospital and St Mary's Hospital, London

All of the clinics will accept patients who have had 3 miscarriages and an appropriate General Practitioner (GP) referral from anywhere within the UK. Your GP will need to refer you via the NHS e-Referral service (often called the ‘choose & book’ system). This will provide you with the opportunity to be part of research towards finding the cause of repeated miscarriages. 

Tommy’s strong view is that all women should get referral after 2 miscarriages and our clinicians and centre directors are working towards this goal. However, until it is made normal NHS funded practice, we are unable to offer it as standard across the clinics. Most doctors realise that this can cause considerable distress to women and many hospitals will investigate after two miscarriages. Currently our clinic in Coventry has an arrangement that allows women with 2 miscarriages to be referred and then only from the local area (see more below).

Talk to your GP, explain how you are feeling and ask to be referred as soon as possible.

The clinics work hand in hand with the research centres by offering women the opportunity to have new tests and take part in new trials. Your referral can be made on the basis that the Tommy’s centre offers tests and treatments not offered by your local hospital. This can be the reason for your request for out-of-area referral.

Choice is enshrined in the NHS charter.

Please note, that the criteria outlined below for referrals to Tommy's clinics situated within the hospitals are stipulated and managed by the hospitals themselves. 

Our Birmingham clinic

Criteria

• Your GP will need to refer you via the NHS e-Referral service (often called the ‘choose & book’ system)
• After 2 miscarriages: upon referral, the recurrent miscarriage clinic will provide guidance to your GP about the investigations that can take place in primary care   
• After 3 or more miscarriages: patients in England or Scotland will get an appointment with the team at the recurrent miscarriage clinic for further investigations and support 

Email

[email protected] or [email protected]

Address

Birmingham Women's NHS Foundation Trust
Mindelsohn Way
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TG

Our London clinic

Criteria

• 3 or more early miscarriages
• 1 or more late miscarriage(s)
• not currently accepting referrals from women who have two or more (living) children  
• women referred should be <42 years old
• women do not need to be from the local area
• your GP will need to refer you via the NHS e-Referral service (often called the ‘choose & book’ system)

Address

Professor Lesley Regan
Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
St Mary's Hospital
Recurrent Miscarriage Office
Ground Floor, Mint Wing
South Wharf Road
London
W2 1NY

Our Coventry clinic

Criteria

• 2 or more miscarriages if local to Coventry
• 1 or more late miscarriage(s)
• your GP will need to refer you via the NHS e-Referral service (often called the ‘choose & book’ system)

Address

Professor Quenby
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust
Clifford Bridge Road
Coventry
CV2 2DX

Tel: 02476967528

*if indicated