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To: The Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Department of Health and Social Care
Create Faye’s Law: Stop mislabelling and missed diagnoses by requiring full patient history review.
Create Faye’s Law: Stop mislabelling and missed diagnoses by requiring full patient history review
Campaign created by: Michelle Oakes (Faye’s mum)
The Health Secretary must introduce Faye’s Law — a legal duty requiring NHS staff to review a patient’s relevant medical history before diagnosis, discharge or treatment decisions.
This would help prevent mislabelling, missed diagnoses, safeguarding failures, and ensure that long-term patterns of illness are properly recognised. It would also allow historic cases involving ongoing harm to be reviewed fairly.
Campaign created by: Michelle Oakes (Faye’s mum)
The Health Secretary must introduce Faye’s Law — a legal duty requiring NHS staff to review a patient’s relevant medical history before diagnosis, discharge or treatment decisions.
This would help prevent mislabelling, missed diagnoses, safeguarding failures, and ensure that long-term patterns of illness are properly recognised. It would also allow historic cases involving ongoing harm to be reviewed fairly.
Why is this important?
Faye Cunningham died aged 27 after years of symptoms were repeatedly dismissed, mislabelled and not properly investigated. Abnormal results, safeguarding concerns and warning signs were missed across multiple services. Her death was preventable.
Faye’s Law would help protect vulnerable patients, reduce diagnostic errors, and ensure people are treated based on evidence — not assumptions.
No family should have to discover too late that a full medical history was never properly considered.
Disclaimer
This campaign reflects the lived experience and understanding of Faye’s family, based on available medical records and evidence. It highlights systemic issues and calls for policy reform in the public interest. It does not assign blame to individual clinicians.
Faye’s Law would help protect vulnerable patients, reduce diagnostic errors, and ensure people are treated based on evidence — not assumptions.
No family should have to discover too late that a full medical history was never properly considered.
Disclaimer
This campaign reflects the lived experience and understanding of Faye’s family, based on available medical records and evidence. It highlights systemic issues and calls for policy reform in the public interest. It does not assign blame to individual clinicians.
How it will be delivered
I plan to deliver this petition electronically to the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care and relevant government departments.
If required, I will also request that it is formally presented to Parliament and shared with Members of Parliament, NHS England, and relevant oversight bodies to support policy review and reform.
