Nice bump Sequeena.
Thought I'd copy and paste the latest from our dealing with the hospital.
Here goes:-
Basically the head of women’s service phoned last night clearly annoyed and upset. Right from the outset she’s been incredibly sorry for what happened to Archie and really embraced the idea of Rob and myself being involved in the new policy. We both felt that if we were onboard we could try and make sure no other parents had to go through what we did and that the policy really would pay the due care and attention Angel parents deserve.
We’ve already been in one meeting which went really well, the only person who was obstructive and rude was the bereavement midwife. The next meeting should be with histopathology, we’d been asked by head of women’s services to attend as she thought we would have more impact than ever she could have. Keep in mind since knowing we would be attending this I have read information that no Angel mummy should have to read, this was my choice as I didn’t want them to try and baffle me with science, I wanted to go in prepared so I would be doing the best for Archie and other babies like him.
Now all of a sudden the legal department and histopathology don’t want us there. They’re claiming its for sensitivity issues. I think the head of women’s services is so angry that she stormed into the office of her boss and said “we weren’t being very sensitive when we put their baby in formaldehyde, why start now!!!!!” She basically said she could get in trouble for phoning me, but felt it was her duty to let us know how things are going. She’s now prepared a letter stating that in the professional guidelines it states a service user should be part of the team that devise a policy, well I think that’s us!!!
I’m so pissed off as we choose not to go down any legal route (even though solicitors thought we may have a case), also I’ve never named the hospital publicly or to anybody like SANDS etc. We always felt that by allowing us to be part of this it was almost part of an unwritten deal that we wouldn’t take it further. Well I’m giving them the opportunity to accept us back on board or that’s it I’m going to get in touch with the solicitors, I’m even prepared to take it to the press and name them. We always thought that when we started writing to other trusts if they wouldn’t listen we may have to go to the press, but always said as our hospital had done the right thing to change things we’d never name them. Yeah right!!!!!!!!