I can see you've had a hellish time and thank God you got some better advice - doesn't bear thinking about if you'd stayed in blackpool!
Medicine is as much art as science and I'd be more concerned about making them investigate it and make some changes including new rules about training and record keeping! I know this is going to be a really unpopular thing to say but please don't sue the NHS!!! Getting money will not make it better though seeing better care on offer will be more of a comfort so other people don't go through the same. Taking money from the service just means more cuts, less staff, less care and also makes doctors scared about taking on high risk cases like yours. There are very few private midwives out there because they can't afford the insurance premiums and even though I work in private health care and in an area making it unlikely I'd be sued I have indemnity insurance through the nursing union - the compensation culture has gone crazy with people more concerned about getting money than making a difference. Sorry if that offends but I do feel stringly that these things need to be in the open and learned from, not a way for solicitors to make money. You've had a number of premature births though and I'm suprised you haven't had a cervical stitch to help prevent it opening if that's the main problem! Though maybe that's being offered later??
Ok well firstly your entitled just like everyone else to an opinion, 2nd the money u get when u sue actually comes from thie insurance not directly from the trust budget althou i do know thier premium will go up, i have a friend that worked in balckpool vic for a few years in their claims department so i know i little more than i should. I also know that for this hospital the maternity payouts are the highest ones as thier is so meny.
I could of sued along time ago theirs been mistake made befroe but ive left it, but this was the final straw for me everyone has a line and they crossed mine big time. So its sad the culture we live in but sometimes its only when u do sue hosptial that it hits them where it hurts and then the do make radical changes and learn from it.
Obviously i wouldnt want anyone else to go throught this but at the same time this is ME AND MY STORY and they need to be held accountable for what they have done. thiers are very deep concerns over their practices their and i want it changed but i also want someone to exceot they dont wrong TO ME....
So im guessing u can see i will be suing infact ive already started the ball rolling and have contacted 2 different solictors about it. Its very easy for you to say dont sue them... but ihave had 7 premmies and 2 of them have died and the last one ella she died down to neglaigance but i didnt have the strength to fight it at the time... and lily my last born little girl had meningitis and severe sepsis bcos i didnt recieve anitbitoics for group strep b whilst in labour even thou thier was a lab report in from the day she was born showing 'PROFUSE GROWTH OF GROUP STREP B' Lily was left severely brain damaged bcos of that, i was in itu u for 3 days.
Tj my son who is now 4 is severely disbaled, not that thier was fault in the pregnancy care but tj lost a finger due to a jr doctor trying to canulate to many times in one site.
Need i go on...
As for a stitch... it would appear at the moment it can be treated with medication which clearly id much rather have im very excited and happy about going to manchester as i know im in good hands very sad that thou that u feel unsafe in your own hospital. ;(.