I would just like to pick up on a point that Hannah has made that the individual concerned directly must make the complaint, I do support this but there are occasions when individual are affected by events but for whatever reason fail to recognise the seriousness or potential seriousness of the situation. I had the very unfortunate experience of having to hold my partner down on the operating table because the epidural wasn't working and she felt all the pain from the caesar, for whatever reason (I believe personal protection) she failed to remember how bad it was, I was put in a very frustrating position of not wanting to see this to happen to anyone else so tried to pursue it but in effect nothing could be done unless my partner would lodge the complaint and basically she just wanted to put it all behind her. I shudder to think that the same could happen to another woman. We as midwives and support people act as advocates for many women we care for but at the end of the day we seem powerless to change the system or what is happening and I regret will continue to happen to far to many women.
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