@Justanotherworkingmom - yes NHS Resolution doesn’t have a magic pot of money.
It is INSURANCE,
If you killed someone in a car crash because you were speeding, you’d be “out of pocket” because your premiums increased. But then, the fictional you shouldn’t have been speeding and sorry is not enough.
The NHS is fantastic at saying, in effect, we couldn’t have done otherwise.
Upthread id said that I am in the process of taking legal action against the NHS.
You are entitled to your view but I’m not “money grabbing”.
I, firstly have no need to be, but compensation exists for when a wrong has been done.
It’s a paltry pay back for a wrong caused by deliberate actions, not where a tired, overstretched nurse was a bit abrupt and so on.
I’m someone who lost her first baby, at full term to placental abruption.
I couldn’t get through to either my midwife or the maternity unit for well over an hour when it started. When I did I was told to have a bath and a paracetamol. Later the Trust denied having a record of that call.
When I called back twenty minutes later with a sigh and muttering I was told to come in but expect not much to happen because they were very busy.
It was a Sunday, 3 days before Christmas Day.
The only reason they “let” me come in was because I said I was struggling to breathe and hadn’t felt my baby move for ages.
When I got to the hospital the midwife sneered at me, was rude to my DH and left me alone for an hour, unexamined. I was on the floor in agony. I could barely breath. I had stopped being able to urinate.
When a midwife eventually came, my DD was dead.
Later the NHS argued that even if they’d called an ambulance 4 hours earlier when I’d first called that she’d have died (or been disabled- obviously the worse thing ever in the NHS mentality).
I then sat in that hospital while they tried to induce me, unable to speak in pain that morphine didn’t touch, when they’d refused a c-section. At 4am, 12 hours after I’d called they burst into the room and told me I was dying.
They said they’d made a mistake, that I was bleeding internally.
4 litres of blood, 4 litres of frozen plasma, 4 litres of platlets, an induced coma, kidney failure..
They said sorry.
They said things had changed about their practices because of my DD.
That was a lie.
Solicitor said I couldn’t prove causation.
That’s how tough it was.
I got no support, no nhs counselling.
When I asked for antidepressants my GP asked why I wanted them and I said my DD had died. Her response was “and..?”
I had to leave my decently paid job (£50,000 9 years ago) because I couldn’t get over my PTSD for ages.
I did go back to work 10 months later, in law, for a £24,000 salary.
The same hospital Trust failed to detect that my only living DD was severely disabled at the 12 week scan (it is obvious looking back even to me).
She’s here now and wonderful.
Her consultant paediatrician in the same Trust took it upon himself to touch me sexually which was so unexpected and frightening that I was in shock. I complained, the Trust backed him. I had a mental breakdown. My (new GP) had laugh(literally) when I told her before I’d complained about him.
I’ve had to pay thousands of pounds (not joking) for counselling and ptsd since he did that. I’ve had to move hospital to avoid him.
I’ve lost friends because of him.
Don’t sue the wonderful “free” NHS that pays that cunt’s 6 figure salary??
Fuck that.
If you can’t competently do a job, get a new one!