28 week bloods

Hi all I have a bit of a problem.
I saw my midwife on Wednesday and she asked me to go get my bloods done this week and said I could do it at the hospital on Wednesday as I was going hospital anyway later that day for my fetal growth scan so she said to do it at the same time.

But when I got to my hospital they said they couldn't help me and that most of the staff were on strike and therefore couldn't do bloods Wednesday.

I had a look on swiftqueue to try book in else where and the only appointment left for this week was this Friday at 15:30 but unfortunately I am at work and my job won't let me leave to go do it

I also rang my doctors this morning and they said they can't do my bloods either.

There's no appointments left on sqiftqueue in my area that I am able to get to until 3rd October! That's like 2 weeks away.
I've no idea what to do

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