"Excellent hospital care with minor suggestions"

I suffered an early stage miscarriage and had excellent medical care at both emergency and the early pregnancy clinic. The wait times are 4 hours which I had fortunately been warned about. I can’t fault the staff, they have a difficult role.

I would make a recommendation that at reception when they are calling people, that they find a different way to ask if someone is there for early pregnancy or fertility as the reception is shared and I could see when this question is asked at reception and again in front of the busy room, was making some patients uncomfortable in my opinion.

At home, I was added to a mailing list which included a magazine with a family and baby on the cover with the heading 'a happy homecoming' and a letter to request donations which also included stories of successful, albeit difficult, pregnancies and births. At the time of receiving the letter, I was still undergoing tests to confirm a successful miscarriage so I question the appropriateness and timing of sending this sort of communication and the ethics of asking for donations for fertility and pregnancy causes whilst someone is grieving their own loss.