The NHS bruising protocol should protect babies and infants from harm. However, in some cases for innocent families, it has led to wrongful suspicion of parents and the enforcement of unnecessary, disproportionate, highly invasive force by NHS, social services and the police, which led to long-term health risks such as cancerous, traumatic, raw pain and fear inflicted on both the baby and the parents.
When coordinated local authorities impose coercive force on families under the guise of policy, parents are left with virtually no means to protect their children—an indefensible imbalance of power that undermines justice and parental rights.
We believe that taking collective action through a class action lawsuit against the unlawful application of the bruising protocol offers the most powerful route to securing accountability for these serious miscarriages of justice.
If local authorities have taken action against you—including issuing interim care orders for your baby—you may understandably feel hesitant to reach out. However, please be assured that you can contact us anonymously, without disclosing any details about your case or identifying information about your family or child.
Once we hear from you, we will connect you directly with our solicitors, who are coordinating a potential class action for when we have sufficient families to meet thresholds to challenge the bruising protocol’s excessive, disproportionate, and unlawful application by local authorities across the UK.
You do not need medical expertise to join us. However, you must reside in the UK, have been subjected to the bruising protocol, and hold a reasonable belief that the protocol’s application in your case was unfair, excessive, or unjustified.
We are planning a class action. If you are interested to learn more, drop us an email at TheBruisingProtocol@gmail.com.
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Other forms of systemic abuse and failures related to the bruising protocol
- Medical personnel may take photos of the baby’s marks, which they will call bruises, without asking the parent or guardian to sign the consent to photograph form.
- Medical staff disallow the parent or the guardian from leaving the ward with the baby, yet they admit that nobody has been arrested, sanctioned, or cautioned. Simply put, NHS staff refuse to press the button to unlock the ward access door.
- Local authorities drop-feed information to the parent or guardian during hospital detentions without giving them the big picture.
- Local authorities do not encourage the guardian or parent to seek legal advice during hospital detentions.
- Medical staff behaves hostile towards the parent or guardian, refusing to help, deprioritising bay visits, and offering no alternative options regarding medical invasiveness.
- Medical staff demand two sets of highly invasive medical procedures, two weeks apart, on the baby, using the argument that some fractures become visible at a later stage.
- Medical staff enforces two CT head scans and a skeletal survey onto the baby, which includes 30+ X-rays. Those are highly invasive medical procedures, especially for immobile babies and infants, who are the subjects of the bruising protocol.
- When the parent or guardian asks for clarification on the risks of highly invasive radiation inflicted on your baby, NHS staff provide silly explanations such as “it is causing the same level of radiation equivalent of one day spent in London”.
- When the parent or guardian asks for clarification from multiple NHS staff on the risks of highly invasive radiation inflicted on their baby, they receive different explanations which are inconsistent and also contradict leaflets.
- NHS staff mishandled blood samples, so they had to take more blood the next day. This error is painful and decreases the chances of catching inflammatory medicine, such as antibiotics, taken before the first blood sample.
- The medical staff places the baby in a bay next to another baby who suffers from a contagious disease or viral infection. NHS staff may decline when the parent or guardian seeks a separate room to protect their baby.
- NHS staff would also show negligence regarding the baby’s vaccination status. Even if the parent or guardian tells the staff that their baby is not vaccinated, NHS personnel will not vaccinate the baby nor offer them protection by giving them a separate room.
- NHS staff threaten the guardian or the parent with the removal of their baby from their care if the guardian does not consent to highly invasive X-rays or CT scans.