The New Statesman

I'll never forget what that doctor told me because he said it

and I knew what it was. It was my fear all the way through my pregnancy.

I blame myself all through labour. I just remember thinking I'm in hell, this is hell, this must be hell.

The things that you've put to me are scandalous.

I was left in a room on level sex with my baby in a cold cot,

while there was other women with their babies and other pregnant women around me.

I never left that room for two days.

I just stayed there with my baby.

They said Alice just didn't trust the clinical advice she was given.

I just, that was just, like, I felt like I've been run over, you know, like, what the hell?

I just, I was like gobsmack, that they were blaming me.

I'm particularly concerned about maternity, but I'm also concerned about the extent to which

I think we've got a breadth and depth of a cultural problem across the NHS, where protecting

the reputation of the NHS and of trust is prioritised over and above

doing the right thing by patients.

In having to spend the last two years, instead of trying to recover, trying to rebuild our life in some way.

We spent it investigating our own child's death.

Why was my baby born early?

Why didn't they help her?

What went wrong?

Across Britain today in the care of our health service,

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