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'Don't be too kind, she'll come back': Life inside maternity unit where mums were failed

The midwife’s notes from Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (NUH) reveal a disturbing insight into the culture within its maternity unit. An acronym scrawled on a whiteboard beside the names of heavily pregnant women—”FOH”—was not an ordinary clinical shorthand but a crude message telling expectant mothers to “F*** Off Home.” This offensive phrase embodied a…