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As much spent on Maternity Compensation as Maternity Care

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RedToothBrush · 24/06/2026 12:36

Ockenden also highlights a "startling statistic", that says clinical negligence is costing the NHS almost the same in legal compensation - as it spends on the delivery of maternity care itself.

This is how little women matter in political terms.

This isn't just a reflection of the NHS. It's in terms of how our society values having children.

It says everything.

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NowSober · 24/06/2026 13:21

MsGreying · 24/06/2026 12:37

Someone once told me the nhs budget is divided equally into 3

  1. NHS pensions
  2. Compensation
  3. The actual cost of running it.

This is totally made up disinformation. The NHS budget is almost £200 billion annually. Pensions cost £17 billion Compensation for clinical negligence is around £3 billion. Unsurprisingly for an organisation employing about 1.8 million people the major cost for the NHS is wages of employees at over £80 billion.

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RedToothBrush · 24/06/2026 12:51

TorturedParentsDepartment · 24/06/2026 12:45

I've shared my birth story multiple times on here - QMC 2012. They gave me an amazing child, but they destroyed my physical mobility and mental health.

Apparently I should have pressed legal charges for assault for stuff that was done to me explicitly against my consent - but they just normalised it at the time - they said openly "we're not all that bothered about the mothers in here - we just care about the babies" - it's fucking Nottingham, not fucking Gilead.

And people knew, people knew back in 2012 - people knew they would use the threat of social services to terrify mothers into not rocking the boat, my community midwife knew when she was so horrified by my maternity notes she told me to photocopy them before they were archived.

And to the fuckwits on here who minimised what had happened, claimed it was OK and normal and that the healthy baby was the only thing at the end of it - it was fucking institutional abuse of women on a massive scale and it was most definitely NOT OK.

I got off lightly - but I still have heavy trauma all these years later.

I have a story about a family member and their family. They work at the Trust. They spotted a huge clinical error and were treated appallingly. Senior job. The Trust absolutely knew. Timescale is in keeping.

And women are berated for making a choice to have an ELCS because of the cost.

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TorturedParentsDepartment · 24/06/2026 12:46

Oh yeah and I'll add in the appointment I had with the "specialist birth trauma midwife" when I was pregnant with number 2... "if you've come in here to demand a cesarian because of how it was last time - you've got no chance".

Interesting opening gambit for a conversation that basically consisted of telling me I'd done childbirth wrong and they were right for 30 minutes.

TorturedParentsDepartment · 24/06/2026 12:45

I've shared my birth story multiple times on here - QMC 2012. They gave me an amazing child, but they destroyed my physical mobility and mental health.

Apparently I should have pressed legal charges for assault for stuff that was done to me explicitly against my consent - but they just normalised it at the time - they said openly "we're not all that bothered about the mothers in here - we just care about the babies" - it's fucking Nottingham, not fucking Gilead.

And people knew, people knew back in 2012 - people knew they would use the threat of social services to terrify mothers into not rocking the boat, my community midwife knew when she was so horrified by my maternity notes she told me to photocopy them before they were archived.

And to the fuckwits on here who minimised what had happened, claimed it was OK and normal and that the healthy baby was the only thing at the end of it - it was fucking institutional abuse of women on a massive scale and it was most definitely NOT OK.

I got off lightly - but I still have heavy trauma all these years later.

Seagulldancing · 24/06/2026 12:40

And that is with huge social pressure not to sue. Imagine how big the bill would be if more people took action.

MsGreying · 24/06/2026 12:37

Someone once told me the nhs budget is divided equally into 3

  1. NHS pensions
  2. Compensation
  3. The actual cost of running it.