⟡ We Stayed Home. Because the Last Time, the Hospital Refused to Help. ⟡
“She chose a nebuliser over an emergency room. I didn’t blame her.”
Filed: 21 November 2024
Reference: SWANK/WCC-NHS/EMAILS-10
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Medical update submitted to Westminster and NHS documenting home treatment for Honor’s respiratory distress following previous hospital-based trauma and institutional refusal to act.
I. What Happened
On the morning of 21 November 2024, the parent emailed both Westminster Children’s Services and GP Dr Philip Reid to confirm:
Her daughter Honor was undergoing albuterol nebuliser treatments at home
Oxygen levels remained low but within watchable range
The parent was monitoring the situation and would escalate to hospital if needed
Honor refused to go to A&E — citing trauma from previous visits where she and her mother were dismissed despite medical crisis
The message reiterated that this is exactly what had happened to the parent previously:
six months of untreated respiratory failure while being accused of non-compliance.
So this time, the family stayed home.
And this time, the system still stayed silent.
II. What the Complaint Establishes
That the child’s oxygen levels were being actively managed with medical oversight
That the family had previously experienced institutional dismissal at hospital and feared repeat trauma
That the NHS was informed, as was the safeguarding authority
That no response, support, or safeguarding review followed
That refusal to seek care was a rational response to institutional harm, not neglect
III. Why SWANK Logged It
Because when a child refuses to go to the hospital because she remembers how it felt to be disbelieved,
you don’t have a clinical problem —
you have an institutional injury.
Because when you choose to treat at home not out of defiance but out of trauma,
you are not refusing care —
you are refusing harm.
And when you warn them in writing and they say nothing,
they’re not documenting risk.
They’re demonstrating it.
IV. Violations
Human Rights Act 1998 – Articles 3 and 8
Exposure to degrading treatment and interference with bodily autonomy and family protectionEquality Act 2010 – Section 20
Failure to respect disability-based limits on hospital care and verbal communicationChildren Act 1989 / 2004
Inaction following explicit notification of a child in medical distressNHS Safeguarding and Risk Protocols
Failure to respond to declared medical harm avoidance and home-based mitigation
V. SWANK’s Position
This wasn’t a wellness update.
It was an institutional indictment.
We didn’t stay home because it was safe.
We stayed home because they made the alternative worse.
So we wrote it down.
And now — we filed it.
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