14^thApril 2013 [blog No. 22 of 22]

Hello again, it’s me, Peggy

Don’t expect to be able to obtain treatment from our NHS if you have, or they know you are contemplating, taking out litigation against a medic. It should not make any difference but it does, you are discriminated against in the harshest of ways by the NHS as an organisation and by the medics themselves. It is a back-covering culture and I have found that the Government (whatever the political persuasion) together with Civil Servants and/or Government Quangos, assist the NHS in this practice whenever and wherever they can.

Written below an extract taken from Leaflet published by the Legal Services Commission

CLS Information Leaflet No. 14 Headed “Medical Accidents” your rights if you have been injured during treatment:-

Under; “How do I decide whether I should take legal action” it states:

“Taking legal action can have an effect on your on-going treatment. Doctors and other health professionals may act differently towards you if they know you are suing”.

These clowns (for want of a swearword) know exactly what is, and has, gone on in your case but they assist in putting the injured patient under a great deal of unnecessary stress by conspiring with the legal system in suppressing your case prior to, and when it comes before the courts. Don’t expect justice, especially if you are contemplating taking action as a litigant in person. You will not stand a cat-in-hells chance.

COPY (page 1) OF MY FAX:

Fax Transmission

For the attention of:

Stephanie Hopkins (Head of Patient Support Services)
Rotherham PCT (Bramley)
Moorhead Way
Bramley
Rotherham S66 1YY

Date: 25^th November 2009     Hard Copy by post

Your Ref:

Your direct fax No. 01709 302041

From: M A Barnes (Mrs). 6 Pine Avenue, South Anston, Sheffield S25 5HA.

From fax No. 01909 561078 (Outgoing only)

 Number of pages including this (6) Please telephone if transmission is incomplete.

Message

Dear Ms Hopkins

Re: M A Barnes - lack of Patients Choice and lack of treatment.

Further to the above-mentioned matter, please find attached here a copy of the letter from Mr Blundell [Orthopaedic Surgeon at the SNGH] dated 12^th November 2009 as addressed to Dr Say refusing me a consultation.

As you are already aware, the request for a consultation with Mr Blundell was made in accordance with GP's request under the Patients Choice Scheme, and bearing in mind

Mr Blundell had also refused me a consultation in accordance with the referral made by Mr Paul Cooke in Oxford, for the problems I am still having with my Right foot.

The CLS documentation also copied to you here recognises that patients are discriminated against and treated differently by medics when litigation is entered into against one of their colleagues.

It would appear that the equivalent to a "No 555" entry made on my medical records by Mr
Brown at the SNGH in February 2001 is still having an effect on my not receiving treatment, and that apart from what the LSC recognises takes place when litigation is entered into.
Ms Hopkins, I want [as I understand is my Right] my x-rays and scans together with the current condition of my Right foot explaining to me by a consultant of my choice at the hospital of my choice in accordance with the GP referral made under the Patients Choice
Scheme please. Anything less will result in my putting this matter to the Ombudsman and the media because the way in which I have been treated over the years by the NHS is appalling and I believe is a matter of great public interest.

I await hearing from you.

Kind regards.

Yours Sincerely

M A Barnes (Mrs)

Cc The Rt. Hon Mr Kevin J Barren MP [House of Commons].

Further: copied below is a copy of my letter to the QMC and it shows you how (in 2010) the QMC in Nottingham made every attempt at sabotaging the reluctant referral as made by my GP Dr Say at the Kiveton Park Medical Centre. It was supposed to have been a referral made in accordance with the Patients Choice Scheme but it was just a fudge and I never did receive treatment by the consultant. As was the case with Mr Blundell in 2009 at the Sheffield Northern General. I was just fobbed-off.

COPY OF MY LETTER DATED 3^rd FEBRUARY 2010 to the QMC NOTTINGHAM

For the attention of:
Dr Boszczyk's Secretary
The Centre for Spinal Studies
Queen's Medical Centre Campus
Derby Road
Nottingham NG7 2UH

Date 3^rd February 2010            4 pages by fax and first class post 3^rd Feb. 2010.

By fax to 0115 970 9991

Faxed from Tel: 01909 561078 NB: Outgoing transmissions only.

Dear Dr Boszczyk's Secretary

Re: Monica Ann Barnes DOB09/01/43 - Hospital No. S14446G. NHS No: 438 464 2032

Thank you for the copy of the letter dated 13^th January 2010 from Mr S Thambiraj [Spinal

Fellow and Colleague of Dr Boszczyk] both of whom I had consultation with when I attended Dr Boszczyk's Clinic on 30 December 2009.

Unfortunately, there are two major errors; the first is in Dr Say's Medical Practice address and the other when Mr Thambiraj is making reference to my past medical history, and I respectfully request of you here that both these matters are corrected please to prevent any incorrect or misleading information being entered into my medical records.

My GP - Dr Say's Medical Practice Address is:

Kiveton Park Medical Practice
Chapel Way
Kiveton Park
Sheffield
S26 6QU

The second error regarding past medical history is when Mr Thambiraj is incorrect by referring to the injection as being made into the "groin" when in fact the Guanethidine
Pain-Block injection was made directly into my "Right Foot" as opposed to a vein [which was done at the Bassetlaw Hospital in November 1993} is made in the second paragraph [after the Diagnosis and Plan of Treatment sections]. See copy letter dated 13th January
2010 marked and attached here for your ease of reference.

Another matter, which I believe, requires your attention:

When my husband was speaking on the telephone to Helen, at your Patients Advice &

Liaison Service, [my Hospital Number was confirmed as being S14446G] she was unable to confirm that I had an MRI scan booked for Thursday 28 January 2010 at 2:00pm, and shortly after him advising her of this fact I received a telephone call from the MRI Department actually cancelling the appointment.

Albeit the MRI Department informed me that the reason for them cancelling my MRI appointment was due to the MRI Scanner breaking down, I would like to take this opportunity here to bring the different hospital numbers matter to your attention because the MR! Department, when booking my MRI Spinal Scans, have used a different Hospital Number to the one the Spinal Clinic and the Physiotherapy Department use, and I believe this matter may create some confusion in the future. Surely you would agree with me in this?

Your Spinal Clinic and your Physiotherapy Department use Hospital No: S14446G, and yet for some reason Hospital No: RX1K2151626 is used by your MRI Department.

Maybe you could explain to me [in writing please] why it is that I have two different "Hospital Numbers" recorded in my notes for my attendance at your hospital?

I await hearing from you.

Kind regards.

Yours sincerely

M A Barnes (Mrs).

Cc Dr Say, Kiveton Park Medical Practice, Chapel Way, Kiveton Park, Sheffield S26 6QU.

The Rt. Hon Mr Kevin J Barren MP (Chair of the Health Select Committee) House of Commons
and,
Mr Andy Buck (Chief Executive, Rotherham Primary Care Trust) for information only.

See also below a copy of the fax cover dated as Wednesday 9^th March 2011 as sent by my new GP to Mr Blundell at the SNGH. You can see where at the bottom right-hand corner *NEEDS 1 HOUR SLOT IN VIEW OF LEGAL ISSUES. OK has been hand-written. This is still at the top of my notes at the SNGH so if I was to be admitted to that hospital I would not be able to access treatment. This again proves discrimination due to “LEGAL ISSUES”.

Furthermore

See copied below the letter original letter dated 12 May 2009 to Mr Blundell from Paul Cooke in Oxford, where Mr Cooke says I was referred onto him by the ombudsman's office.

This true story continues ....

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