Overview

• Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Trust’s chief medical officer expressed condolences and vowed to review and expand bereavement support at King’s Mill Hospital after media coverage highlighted service gaps
• Enya Burgess and Scott Stanley launched a GoFundMe page in early July aiming to raise £10,000 to create dedicated counselling rooms, private spaces at the hospital
• The campaign has secured more than £2,000 so far as the couple seek to address a policy that excludes families of children over a certain age from ongoing bereavement counselling
• The parents recounted being left in the busy A&E waiting area for around half an hour without access to dedicated support or a private space after their daughter’s SUDC death on May 7
• Sudden Unexplained Death in Childhood affects about 40 UK children each year and remains unpredictable, underscoring calls for consistent NHS aftercare protocols