I think its pretty common to have to wait for an OB at a public hospital. The midwife clinic tends to be much quicker cause they seem to have more MWs rostered on. I was spewing that when I did GP shared care for my pg with Phoebe that my hospital appts were with the OB. Stupid. I should've been seeing the MWs. I often had to wait 2 hours + for the OB, only to have them do exactly the same as the MW would have done.