⟡ “Your Child’s Pain Is Important to Us. We’ll Get Back to You in 48 Working Hours — Possibly.” ⟡
The Auto-Reply as Institutional Artefact: Bureaucracy in Lieu of Urgency
Filed: 25 June 2025
Reference: SWANK/UCLH/PAEDIATRIC-AUTOREPLY
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UCLH acknowledged receipt of an urgent complaint with a standardised 48-hour promise, no triage, and the threat of a no-caller-ID phone call.
I. What Happened
On 4 June 2025 at 10:24am, UCLH’s Paediatric Dentistry Surgical Bookings Team issued an auto-reply in response to a formal written request concerning the surgical delay for Kingdom. This automatic message confirmed only that the inbox is monitored, responses are “aimed” for within 48 working hours, and that staff may attempt contact by phone — using no caller ID — unless told otherwise.
No acknowledgement of the urgency.
No reference to the child’s MRN.
No recognition of disability accommodations already on file.
No indication that the message had been read — let alone understood.
II. What the Complaint Establishes
Confirmation that UCLH received written notification of a delayed paediatric surgery
No case-specific reference or triage system acknowledged
48 working hours elapsed without a response — auto-confirmation of institutional latency
Threat of unsolicited phone contact despite documented disability restrictions
A health system so depersonalised that pain triggers a template
III. Why SWANK Logged It
Because the auto-reply is now the most consistent form of NHS communication. Not medicine, not access — but digital placation. A holding pattern disguised as help. The illusion of presence.
When a disabled child’s dental pain is answered with “please wait 48 working hours,” and no substantive reply ever arrives, that absence becomes legally and ethically significant.
The silence that follows an auto-reply is no longer blank.
It’s forensic. It speaks.
IV. Violations
Equality Act 2010 – Ignoring written-only communication adjustments
Children Act 1989 – Failure to act in a child’s best interest in a timely manner
NHS Constitution – Failure to ensure timely and appropriate responses to serious health concerns
Human Rights Act 1998 – Article 8: Interference with medical access and family life
V. SWANK’s Position
SWANK does not regard auto-replies as care. A disabled child’s suffering requires action — not a delay clock and a threat of anonymous phone contact.
This wasn’t follow-up.
It was pre-abandonment.
And SWANK will record every second of institutional delay, down to the hour they said they’d try to respond — and didn’t.
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