NHS Services For Children

I have mixed views on the NHS. It is something that we are very lucky to have access to, but I do admit that sometimes I wonder if the service we actually receive is worth having at all! Adults do seem to have a raw deal when it comes to the NHS. We pay for it, yet it's the kids that get all of the benefits! The NHS services for children are great, a lot better than those for adults. For a start, all children up to the age of 16 (or 19 if still in education) get free prescriptions. NHS professionals are also a lot more helpful, understanding and kind to children; which is understandable, really. My son was recently rushed to ...  Read the complete review

Time and time again I hear people say how rubbish the services are but I have to say that I have been extremely impressed with the help, standards and staff that I have encountered along the way. If it wasn't for the free NHS care that my son's have received in the last six months then they wouldn't be fit and healthy and my pocket would be a little less lighter. The 'Elijah' story. I gave birth to Elijah at home. The whole experience was amazing and the midwives that attended were absolutely brilliant. When Elijah was around 8-9 days old he developed a bit of nappy rash. My eldest son had this when he was born and I assumed it was his ski getting used to ...  Read the complete review

I am writing this story mainly to get a few things off my chest and to get rid of some of the things that have weighed me down over the last year as I believe that both my son & I suffered needlessly by failure to identify my son's problems at an early stage and from being patronised by people who wrote me off as just another fussing mother. I will start back in April 2000 when my beautiful son was born, a perfectly healthy baby weighing 8lbs and although I know that all mothers are biased, my son was truly beautiful, a gorgeous dark little thing with dark hair (blond now!), dark eyes & olive skin. The night he was born, I thought that I had never seen ...  Read the complete review

When I gave birth to my children and you were allowed out of hospital for the first couple of months you had a Health Visitor come to your home just to check that you and your child were bonding and both doing well. Then after a while it was every couple of months they came to do tests on the children to make sure that they were doing what they should be at their age. I have no arguments with this and think that it is a great idea. Yes there is a "but". In the first couple of weeks I was told all about what I should be eating and exercising to get my figure back. I did as I was told and got my figure back but I must admit to resentment at ...  Read the complete review

Last Christmas I took my 6 month daughter to the doctor's because she had a bad cold that would'nt go away. The doc was very sympathetic, told me she was breathing to fast (about 70 breaths a min) and her chest sounded like an old mans who had smoked for 50 years! He said he thought it was Bronchilitis (a nasty chesty thing that babies get!). After explaining that I should try and raise her head at night by placing a pillow under her mattress, place a boiling kettle in the room to create steam and lots of other useful tips. He also said that if she got worse or I was worried at all then to bring her back. 3 days later I did, so he sent me up to the childrens ...  Read the complete review