Hat tip to Ambush Predator for spotting this truly appalling example of how Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) treats or rather mistreats its patients.

Imagine that you are an expectant mother who has been told that their baby had perished in the womb which is devastating news in itself only to be then told that the woman should go home and make an appointment to deliver her dead baby. This is monstrously callous behaviour but it’s the sort of behaviour that many of us have come to expect from the NHS.

Ambush Predator quoted the BBC as saying:

“A seven-month pregnant woman whose unborn baby died after she was discharged from hospital while suffering from a life-threatening condition was told by staff to make an appointment to give birth.

Danielle Brown, 31, from North Tyneside, said she was devastated to have to return home knowing the baby she was carrying was no longer alive.

She said no family should be put through the same experience and wants hospitals to offer alternatives for those grieving.

After she was discharged from hospital suffering with pre-eclampsia, Danielle insisted on returning to the maternity unit as she felt so unwell and was seen by doctors.

She was told her daughter had died but, instead of delivering the baby, the hospital sent her home and told her to ring to book a slot to give birth.

Her partner Anthony Miller, 34, described it as “horrible… lying in bed and holding that belly” knowing their baby was not alive.”

I’ve seen, read and have seen family experience some monstrously bad treatment from the NHS but this one leaves me gobsmacked. They sent a woman home, carrying her dead baby and still suffering from the pre-eclampsia that the hospital appears to have done sod all about.

If you still believe that the NHS works for you and not just it’s staff, if you still think that you can trust the NHS with you or your family’s care or if you mindlessly applauded this disgraceful organisation during Covid then you are a complete mug. Ambush Predator is 100% correct in her assessment of the NHS, it is indeed an organisation that is ‘rotten to the core’.

Link

BBC story

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm9dzn8e737jo

Ambush Predator’s coverage of this story

https://thylacosmilus.blogspot.com/2026/11/did-you-clap-for-this-rotten-to-core.html