OVERWORKED maternity hospitals in Melbourne are being forced to turn down bookings from pregnant women, forcing them to hospitals further away or into expensive private care.
Fairfax says staff at the recently expanded Werribee Mercy Hospital have told several local women this year that the hospital is too full to book them in for antenatal care.
Victorian Health Services Commissioner Beth Wilson is looking into the matter and said she had also received complaints from women who had been turned away from the Royal Women's Hospital.
Ms Wilson said the government needed to invest in growth corridors, particularly in Melbourne's west.
"The west is one of the fastest growing districts in the world," Ms Wilson said.
"There are new suburbs springing up and there are young people buying houses and moving in, but the health services are not keeping up with that spurt of growth. Unless we do something about this quickly there are going to be big problems," she said.
Doctors told Fairfax the shortage of beds at Werribee and the Royal Women's was impacting on Sunshine Hospital, which was taking the overflow despite a lack of birth suites.
They said it was also causing many women to be discharged home one day after birth, jeopardising postnatal care.
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