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[NHS Fuckwittery] Daily Mail on Top Form

Posted on the 10 February 2014 by Markwadsworth @Mark_Wadsworth
From The Daily MailA couple were reported to social services for refusing to let hospital staff test their nine-week-old baby for HIV.  When their son Jean developed a slight temperature one night, Pete and Sarka Celliers took him to hospital as a precaution... They say their nightmare began when a consultant was carrying out a blood test on Jean in A&E. As the consultant handed the needle to a nurse she accidentally pricked the nurse’s skin.  Two hours later, during which time the couple claim they were left in a bay without a bed for their son, they were asked for permission to test Jean for HIV/hepatitis because the nurse’s skin had been pricked with his blood...  However, the next day the hospital repeatedly called the couple... And so and so forth. Poor sods, but the little lad seems happy enough in the picture, that's the main thing.  ... at their semi-detached £550,000 home in Walton-on-Thames, asking them to bring Jean in for further tests.

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