Last week I did an interview that lasted 5 hours, just me, talking. I had plenty more to say. My conversations with other campaigners...

The Cost of Concealment: Why the Failure of Clinical Candour Demands Full Redress When public authorities and corporate structures look at a major public health disaster like the Sodium Valproate scandal, they hide behind a single, sanitised word: complexity. They claim that designing a redress scheme is "too complicated" because the victim community is not a monolith, encompassing different cohorts, varying eras of law, and vastly different levels of lifelong neurodevelopmen

Since my daughter's diagnosis of fetal Valproate syndrome, I've been determined to understand how a harmful congenital syndrome could be...

Having been a constituent of Keir Starmer’s for many years, on and off, I’ve been curious about his approach to justice. As a lawyer he...

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It was dubbed the Wonderdrug back in the 70s as it worked so well and could be taken along with the contraceptive pill. Wondrous indeed...

This piece was drafted in 2022 but not published. On 7th February 2024 a proposal for redress for those adversely affected by pelvic...

When I started asking questions, around 2003, I first talked to a health journalist I knew. She told me that in order to prove that...

People on the ketogenic diet usually don’t talk about it because of the reactions received from others. They chat secretly on forums,...

In my 20 plus years of work on valproate as the mother of a person affected and campaigner I could say that I’ve got the subject just...

In a recent meeting with DHSC, PSC and NHSE I realised that I’d finally lost patience. To be honest I’d lost it many years before. ...