She has been delivering bad news to people for the last five years and it never gets easier. In Alice Stanhope, Kate sees an extreme case of denial. This is the first time she’s come across someone who says they don’t have a support person. Alice is going to need someone to help her through the hardest time in her life. All patients need “mothering”. Someone who will reassure them and fight for them. Kate herself wants to be a mother. She has the man of her dreams and two great step-children but she really wants to have a baby of her own as well.