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"Chicken and egg?"

About: Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

Chicken and egg situation? We were refused entry to our baby scan because we couldn't provide a COVID test result to ourselves. We had been looking for the test kits in the last 3 weeks at least, including online and local pharmacies, without a luck.

We are both double vaccinated + boostered and does this make any difference?

The hospital's (NHS) policy demands the negative test results and the NHS can't supply them. NHS won't give but the same NHS will ask? Is this really fair?!

Why don't you rethink this and offer some flexibility in such cases? We are only allowed 2 scans within the whole pregancy and already you are scrapping the most important (22 weeks) off from us? How about the serious implications not diagnosing any health risks to the mom and not checking the baby's development of organs?

I will be however safe to go in a pub or on a trip and celebrate how happy I am about the whole situation.

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