20th March 2013
Hello again, it’s me, Peggy
Sorry for the slight delay in getting
back but I been struggling with the exceptionally painful problem my Right foot
over the past few days.
Today I want to mention the Whistle
Blowing in the NHS that has recently been discussed in the House of Commons,
Health Select Committee and on TV about the gagging order on Gary Walker Chief
Executive of the Lincolnshire Hospital.
The Government Bodies are now talking
about having transparency in the NHS and apparently about their surprise at the
gagging orders as if it has only just been uncovered. It was my understanding
that the NHS should at all times have been transparent, and in the past I’ve told
Chief Executive Munroe Donald, Chief Executive Nigel Clifton and Margaret Cox
at the Bassetlaw Hospital together with telling Chief Executive Brian James at
the RDGH, Andrew Cash (Chief Executive) at the Sheffield Northern General and every
Minister of Health since Frank Dobson and right up to Mr Andrew Lansley about
the goings on over my case. One Undersecretary of State for Health even wrote
to me advising me that it was a matter for the police and basically saying it
was not one she could consider. I consider that once I had passed the matters
onto her it was up to her to act on those matters.
The continuing coving-up of the
mistakes made by Orthopaedic Surgeon Mr Majumdar in 1987 and subsequently by Professor
Dandy, has followed me to every hospital wherever I have been referred to by my
then GP, due to the Mention of Litigation in letters of referral and contained
within my medical records. The GPs at Kiveton Primary Care Centre were the
latest offenders. They were advised by the Information Commissioner that
reference to Litigation/court case in my notes was too unreasonable for medical
purpose, and they were advised in 2002/03 to amend and remove all evidence of
such information from my medical records.
When I changed over from the KPPCC to
another GP Practice in November 2010 it was discovered by my new GP that the
KPPCC had not adhered to the ICO’s advice and recommendations. My medical
records were not available to my new GP until March 2011.
See copy letter dated 10 March 2011
from Mr Andy Buck (Chief Executive) Rotherham Primary Care Trust, where you can
see he confirms that the the delay in amending my medical records by the KPPCC
from 3rd November 2010 to March 2011 was due to it being an onerous
task. Albeit Mr Buck had been made aware of the happenings at the KPPCC over my
medical records and the mention of litigation, he made no attempt to bring them
to BUCK over the matter.
Recently, I received a letter from a
Government Body in response to my complaint advising me to put the matter to a
solicitor. They obviously want me to fill the greedy clinical negligence solicitors’
pockets yet again thereby letting them laugh all the way to the bank!!!!
However, now transparency in the NHS
and other Government Departments is to the forefront, and gagging is to be
ostracised, maybe, just maybe, Orthopaedic Surgeon Mr Zeraati, Radiologist Dr
Howard, Radiographer Carole Perry, Radiology Manager Judy Haynes and Medical
Records Clerk Patricia Hewitt might consider coming out of the woodwork and
tell the truth about what has happened in my case and the complaint I brought
against the Bassetlaw Hospital & Community Services NHS Trust. By them so
doing might clear the conscience?
When I asked Mr Zeraati to confirm that
he had shown me a copy of the Bassetlaw Hospital LAT View X-ray dated 19/08/91 showing
the bony lesion/foreign body to be in my Right knee on that date, he told me
that it was more than his job was worth, and further, that he did not like
being ridiculed by his colleagues.
Mr Kieran Colton, the then Medical
Records & Risks Manager at the Bassetlaw Hospital, did tell my husband (at
the time I summoned them to court to give evidence and District Judge Hickinbottom
had subsequently made me withdraw the summonses) that Carole Perry and Patricia
Hewitt was protected by the official secrets Act. Now what does that tell you?
They were gagged!!!
More of this true story to follow ……
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