Every day there seems to arrive yet another story that shows just how truly awful Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) really is. There’s tales of treatment delays, wrong treatment, poor quality of nursing, appointments that cannot be attended because of a failure to communicate with patient transport services, rudeness by NHS staff, a maternity system which is 63% unsafe and deaths from poor treatment or delayed treatment or the wrong treatment or just plain failure to treat patients with any respect whatsoever, there’s lots and lots of those.
However this particular story of NHS failure just astounds me. A couple who lost their newborn baby due to NHS mistakes and errors has found out that the NHS mortuary services mishandled the body of their dead baby. They failed to treat even this dead baby with respect and let the body get into such an advanced state of decomposition that the baby’s body had to be triple sealed prior to the baby’s funeral. Members of the hospital’s mortuary staff have subsequently been arrested on charges of Misconduct in Public Office.
The Times said:
“Jack Hawkins used to love his job as a doctor at the Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust. It was where he met his wife, Sarah, a senior physiotherapist. It was where, seven years later, the couple planned she would give birth to their first child, a daughter they would call Harriet. They trusted their colleagues to take care of them.
Their colleagues failed, horrifically. Harriet was stillborn after a catalogue of errors by midwives and doctors in 2016.
After a lengthy legal battle, the couple received £2.8 million in compensation in 2021 and have since been at the forefront of efforts to expose the NHS’s largest maternity scandal. Some 2,500 cases are now being examined.
Almost nine years after Harriet’s death, her parents continue to learn new and horrific details about what happened to her.
It can now be revealed that the hospital allowed her body to decompose so badly in the months after her death that she had to be “triple-bagged” when placed into a coffin for her funeral. Her parents only discovered the horrific failure last summer after forcing the trust to release a cache of internal emails.
A few months later they learnt that staff recorded a 2017 phone call made by Jack, a former medical consultant at the trust, without his consent, and played it at a meeting of senior midwives months later. In this meeting they allegedly “mocked” the grieving father.
Jack said the revelations made him feel sick. “It is an abuse,” he said. “This encapsulates the failures in values, behaviours and quality of care that has caused so much harm and death in Nottingham.”
Sarah added: “They couldn’t even look after Harriet when she was dead. How much more can they put us through? It’s never ending.” “
This is the NHS. This is the ‘service’ that costs billions, which we Britons are told by our Establishment to treat as some form of secular religion and what idiots banged pots and pans for during Covid. It is a disgraceful entity that deserves neither the support of the love of the British people. What went on in Nottingham’s maternity hospitals and what was said about patients went way way beyond the sort of gallows humour that can be found in the military, policing, fire service and journalism. It was dehumanising people who had genuine grounds for complaint about how they were treated by the NHS.
The NHS is disgusting. It’s also disgusting that the vast majority of Britons are forced by necessity to use it. Not everyone can afford private health insurance which then puts them in the hands of a nationalised healthcare system that is lesser in quality than my local vets practise. We deserve better than the NHS we really do.
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