Your headline “Shock at practice of burning foetuses as ‘waste’ in hospitals” (News from Britain and Ireland, 29 March) indeed shocked me that some hospitals are still disposing of foetuses in this manner. In 2001, we at Poole Hospital Foundation Trust set up a working party to devise a process for the sensitive cremation of all foetal remains: a process that would be ethical, confidential and consensual. The working party at that time under the chairmanship of Canon Jane Lloyd brought together 11 departments and three outside agencies which included bereaved parents. The working group aimed to produce a policy and practice that they would be proud of and which would meet the needs of grieving families. In 2006 the new practice went live. Since then, all babies los