I want to ensure that every patient’s full medical history is reviewed before diagnosis or treatment — so no one is ever mislabelled, neglected, or denied care again.

This is Faye’s Law: Because history matters. 

**We are calling for:

“Faye’s Law – History Matters / No More Labelling”**

A national reform to protect patients from

• misdiagnosis, mislabelling, fragmentation of records, and avoidable harm.

This law would:

⭐ 1. Require clinicians to review medical history (minimum 10 years, or from birth)

Especially in cases involving:

• repeated symptoms
• abnormal blood tests
• chronic rashes
• cognitive changes
• collapses
• hypertension
• neurological symptoms

⭐ 2. End non-evidenced labels that block treatment

No more:

• “white coat syndrome”
• “anxiety”
• “stress-related”
• “non-compliant”
• without objective supporting evidence.

⭐ 3. Create a National “History Matters” Vulnerability Flag

Triggered by:

• repeating abnormal results
• neurological decline
• safeguarding concerns
• cognitive change
• multiple attendances
• trauma with escalating risk

This flag ensures patients cannot be dismissed or discharged without escalation.

⭐ 4. Introduce mandatory follow-up of repeating abnormal results

So no abnormal blood test, scan, or red-flag symptom is ever lost, ignored, or never repeated.

⭐ 5. Require cross-trust medical record integration

Child records must follow patients into adulthood.

Patterns must be visible across hospitals.

⭐ 6. Allow the Ombudsman to investigate cases before 1996 when ongoing harm is evidenced.

The current 1996 rule blocks full investigation of cases like Faye’s, where early-life harm shaped lifelong vulnerability.

⭐ 7. Extend complaint windows in cases involving trauma, disability, cognitive impairment or preventable death.

Families should not be penalised for delays caused by grief, trauma or lack of transparency.

⭐ 8. Enforce duty of candour and record transparency

To ensure:

• accurate documentation
• honest communication
• prevention of retrospective entries
• protection of patient truth

Why this law is needed — 

Faye’s Story - Faye Rebecca Cunningham was born prematurely and lived with lifelong illness:

• seizures, memory loss, recurring rash, chronic pain, neurological problems, abnormal blood tests, and severe hypertension.

Her medical records suggest early toxic exposure or neonatal injury may have left her system vulnerable from the start — a possibility never investigated.

Despite repeated symptoms across childhood, adolescence, and adulthood, her concerns were repeatedly minimised or mislabelled as:

• Anxiety
• “White coat syndrome”
• Stress
• Lifestyle
• Behavioural

Her full medical history was never reviewed.

Patterns were missed.

Safeguarding triggers were ignored.

Escalation did not occur.

Her voice was lost in the system.

Faye died in July 2022, aged 27, following untreated hypertension, unmanaged neurological deterioration, and a preventable cascade of failures in monitoring, escalation, safeguarding and continuity of care.

Her hypertension — documented for years — was never treated because she had been incorrectly labelled “white coat syndrome”.

Her family believes that, if Faye’s full medical history had been reviewed and her symptoms properly investigated. Faye would be alive today.

This reform is not just for Faye — it’s for everyone.

• Every patient.
• Every family.
• Every child who grows into an adult with symptoms that never got connected.

Your history matters — and so did hers.

Disclaimer

The statements in this petition reflect the personal experiences and understanding of Faye Cunningham’s family and supporters.

They are based on available medical records and lived experience.

This petition advocates for systemic change in the public interest and does not assign blame to individual professionals or institutions.

**Please sign and share.

Help us make Faye’s Law a reality.

• No more labels.
• No more neglect.

History must matter.**

 

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