That last boost from the @openrightsgroup is a THING for me.
Two days after an emergency C section I was in hospital when an unknown woman appeared at my bedside with a form. She starts taking details & I eventually gather enough wits about me to realise she's asking things she should know, & I ask "hang on, are you not hospital staff?".
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She produces a bag of baby stuff & talks about how they help with the birth registration process blah blah blah & it clicked that is was Bounty.
So I asked where the information was going & who it would be shared with & if she was trying to put my TWO DAY OLD CHILD on a fucking sales database.
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She mumbled uncomfortably for a while before giving me the bag of goodies ("you can have them anyhow"), an incomplete form & leaving.
You know what saved us from ending up on that database? We hadn't picked a name yet. She couldn't fill in the form without the name. The lull as she thought about what to do gave me time to think.
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I love the NHS, & have many reasons to thank them, but letting Bounty into hospital wards with new mothers is a shitty move.
I do not have the words to explain how unprepared I was to have to deal with that.
Very obviously I have enough words to still be furious about it & it was a LONG time ago now.
Anyhow. As you were. Just felt the need to vent for a moment there.
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