28^th May 2013 [blog No. 26]

Hello again, it’s me, Peggy

Firstly, I would like to thank the firm of solicitors who left this comment on my last blog saying; “As medical law solicitors we sadly see this type of thing every day. Keep up sharing your experience and the disgraceful service provided by the NHS”.

I will be continuing with my blogs because I was crippled by the medical profession at the age of 45-years. I spent the first ten years after the operation on my Right knee walking with the aid of sticks and/or crutches but for the last fifteen years I have been left walking with the aid of crutches permanently, and I have been told I will have to do this for the rest of my life. Sometimes I have to revert to using either my wheelchair or motorised disability scooter.

I reiterate here, Mr Paul Cooke, Orthopaedic Consultant in Oxford  (in May 2009) told me the problem should have been dealt with fifteen years ago, which was at the time I had the botched Guanethidine Pain-Block injection which was injected directly into my right foot, as opposed to a vein, in November 1993. In December 2008 I was advised that the Guanethidine should not have been injected into my foot, for the pain in my knee, in any event.

When I attended a physiotherapy session in Rotherham the physiotherapist told me that all the physiotherapy in the world would not put right what is wrong with my right foot. In 2010 a physiotherapist in Nottingham asked me what I was hoping to achieve, and when I said I wanted to walk without the aid of crutches she said I’m sorry Mrs Barnes that’s never going to happen.   

I allege that the state I have been left in and the poor quality of life is the direct result of a cover-up by the medical profession, since being transferred to the care of the NHS for treatment of the botched operation on my right knee in May 1988.

When referring me for treatment Medics have always referred to litigation issues, court case etc in letters of referral and subsequently, as you will see from my last blog, Mr Andy Buck, Chief Executive, Rotherham NHS Primary Care Trust, in his letter to our MP dated 10 March 2011, confirmed that the reason for it taking the Kiveton Park Practice so long (Nov 2010 to March 2011) in returning my medical records back to my new GP was that they found amending Mrs Barnes medical records had been an onerous task. This proves beyond a shadow of doubt that the Kiveton Park Practice had not heeded the ICO’s advice back in 2002/03 and had continued to refer to court case and litigation issues in letters of referral, and the reason for me being denied treatment. I allege that by the Kiveton Park Group Practice sending my medical records to my new GP un-amended was done willfully by them in a bid to inform my new GP of past litigation issues with intent to continue the cover-up.

I’m still reviewing my files relating to 1993 when  my then GP was Dr Mrs Gita Halder, who’s Practice was Woodsetts Surgery, 2a Berne Square, Woodsetts, Worksop. She had referred me onto Mr Verinder, Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, at the Dukeries Clinic in Worksop. I saw him as a Private paying patient. You can see from the fifth line down in his letter of response to Dr Haldar (copied below) that he refers to litigation.

When I attended Mr Verinder’s Clinic in July 1993 he had a copy of the (Now non-existent) Bassetlaw Hospital 19/08/91 LAT View X-ray of my Right knee on his eliminated display panel but he never considered or discussed the image (a bony lesion) that was clearly visible on what we now know to be on the Medial Aspects of my knee. We were only in his consulting room for about ten minutes and he quickly (and incorrectly) diagnosed my knee pain as being due to RSD, and he referred me onto a Dr Renshaw at the same Clinic for Pain Management.

I subsequently discovered that RSD was a controversial diagnosis. I was advised by one solicitor in Sheffield that he’d come across cases where RSD was diagnosed when either the consultant did not know the true diagnosis or when they did not want the patient to know the true diagnosis.

In any event, when referring me onto Dr David Renshaw for pain management treatment (as a Private Paying Patient|) you can see from Dr Renshaw’s letter of reply (21/7/1993) to Mr Verinder, that Dr Renshaw thanks Mr Verinder for his detailed history, that, he says, he will not repeat. See first paragraph of the letter copied below.

 

Dr Renshaw referred me onto himself at the Bassetlaw Hospital for pain management treatment. It was he that injected the inappropriate Guanethidine Pain-Block injection directly into my Right foot, as opposed to a vein, in November 1993, instead of him advising me that I had a bony lesion situated on the medial aspects of my Right knee and seen in Bassetlaw Hospital LAT View x-ray of my Right knee dated 19/08/91.

When Dr Renshaw became aware of my seeing the said 19/08/91 LAT View x-ray, in 1996, at the time when Mr Zeraati (Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at Bassetlaw Hospital) and that Mr Zeraati had advised me that I had a foreign body in my Right knee, Dr Renshaw went on to advise me that it was not foreign to me as it was a piece of bone. He had known all the time what the problem actually was, so why did he not advise me of that back in November 1993 instead of giving me the botched Guanethidine Pain-Block injection, which, according to advice received in 2008, should have gone into my knee as opposed to my foot in any event.

You can see from the comments made in these letters dated 1993 just how long I have been discriminated against and that is not taking into account the letter from Professor Dandy to Dr Gita Haldar dated May 1990, where he returned me back to the care of my GP recommending I see a psychiatrist.

In a Report dated 10^th November 1998 by Mr Nigel Anderson, solicitor and also a Deputy Coroner, as made for the Office of Supervision of Solicitors in a case intended against Irwin Mitchell solicitors, Mr Anderson said, and I quote the following from his report;

5th paragraph of his report: "It is obvious to me that a number of doctors that have seen Mrs Barnes have shown no interest in her problem or have been generally hostile to her as soon as they found out that there has been a claim against a colleague of theirs".

In the 5th paragraph he goes onto say, and I quote; "... I have never seen such hostility before as is contained in some of the correspondence from the medical profession. By that I am judging their hostility by the contents of the letters that they have sent to each other and the problem that Mrs Barnes has clearly had getting straight answers from them. Therein lies the problem".

This true story continues …….

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17^th May 2013 [blog No. 25]

 Hello again, it’s me, Peggy

I’m currently looking at my files relating to 1999 and my then GP Dr Mrs Gita Halder, who’s Practice was Woodsetts Surgery, 2a Berne Square, Woodsetts, Worksop S81 8RI. Unfortunately for me her husband was an Orthopaedic Surgeon practising at the Bassetlaw Hospital.

Dr Haldar’s surgery amalgamated with Dinnington Group Practice in 1999. Unfortunately, I then found myself back as a patient with the GP Practice that I’d left when I had moved to Mrs Gita Haldar’s Practice.

I’d left Dinnington Group Practice due to Dr Robinson refusing me a referral to Mr John King in London who had been recommended to me by Mrs Pauline Howard at the Whitehouse Physiotherapy Centre in Sheffield. She had advised me that something had been left in my knee during previous surgery. Which had been done by Mr Madjumdar in 1987? I see recorded in my medical records a note by Dr Robinson saying “Mrs Barnes came in wanting a referral to an Orthopaedic Surgeon recommended by her solicitor. (HE LIED).

However, when I saw a Dr Evans at the Woodsetts Branch Surgery I was referred in letter dated 23 November 1999 to a Professor Wallis at Park Hospital, Burntstump Country Park, Arnold, Nottingham. You can see that apart from Dr Evans putting him off with the reporting of my past medical history in seeking treatment, in the final paragraph of the letter Dr Evans also refers to previous Litigation. (See letter copied below)

I cannot find any reference to Orthopaedic Surgeon Professor Wallis refusing the referral but I recollect Dr Evans telling me he had telephoned the GP Practice to say I would be better-off seeing Orthopaedic Surgeon Mr Alan P Broodryk, again at the same Park Hospital.

 I was referred to Broodryk and I saw him in early December 1999 on a private paying basis. He had a curt and arrogant attitude towards me, and it was obvious he’d been made aware of the previous litigation because he also makes reference to Litigation Issues in the first paragraph of his letter of response dated 15^th December 1999 to my GP. He had also suggested to me, same as he had put in his letter (as copied below) that if I just let anyone perform an operation on my knee I could possibly lose my leg. When at the consultation he said that I could possibly lose my life as well. Now, I believe he intended two things to happen here; (a) he was warning me off having any operation anyway, and (b) he was warning me that doctors bury their mistakes. In any event he had no intensions of offering me any treatment himself because he referred me onto a Mr I W Forster, yet another Orthopaedic Surgeon at the same Park Hospital. You can see from the letter copied below that Mr Broodryk copied his letter to my GP onto Mr Forster Orthopaedic Surgeon, at the very same Park Hospital. That way, Mr Forster himself became aware of the previous litigation issues as mentioned in Broodryk’s letter to my GP.

When I attended the appointment with Mr Forster he too was arrogant, and without him reviewing any of my x-rays or MRI scans he simply diagnosed my problem as being a cyst and he wanted to give me more of the Pain-management treatment as opposed to removing the bony lesion from the medial aspects of my Right knee. The three visits at Burnstump Country Park Hospital had been fruitless. It was simply a costly exercise.

However, due to my being trailed about the country on a wild-goose-chase and it costing us a fortune I requested Dr Evans to refer me to someone more local. Dr Evans recommended Mr Bickerstaff, Orthopaedic Surgeon at the Sheffield Northern General Hospital as the person I should see.

 Mr Bickerstaff refused to see me. There was no wonder why this was because again, if you look at the GP referral letter dated 30^th December 1999 to Mr Bickerstaff (See copied below) my GP again refers to previous litigation issues and the most recent fruitless consultations. Again, it was a way of the medical profession denying me proper corrective treatment.

I moved to a new GP Practice, the Kiveton Park Medical Centre Nr Sheffield but they did exactly the same, and in letters of referral when I was seeking treatment they referred to litigation issues, court case etc.

 In 2002/03 the Information Commissioner advised Kiveton Park Medical Centre (my new GP Practice) to remove all traces of Court case, litigation issues and the like from my medical records and from letters of referral because the entries in question were not relevant and too excessive for medical purpose, Albeit the ICO thought the GP Practice had taken their advice and dealt with the issues, as it turned out this was not done until I moved to a new GP Practice in November 2010.

I have mentioned this in a previous Blog where after my raising a complaint with the Rotherham Primary Care Trust in early 2011, via the Rt Hon Mr Kevin J Barron MP our Local MP (due to my medical records not been available at an attendance with my new GP in January 2011, Mr Andy Buck, the then Chief Executive RPCT wrote to Mr Barron confirming that my medical records had been returned to the Kiveton Group Practice by my new GP in November 2010 requesting my medical records be amended in accordance with the advice received from the ICO.

Unfortunately, the Information Commissioner has no teeth and no way of fining or imposing a penalty on Data Controllers that breach Data Protection issues, they are just an overpaid Quango justifying their own jobs.

It might be of some interest to you here in that I’d asked the ICO for copies of some Data from a Data Controller myself, and apart from sending me the copies I had requested (a handful) I received a banker-box full of three other persons Data as requested of the ICO by these other three people. By them so doing the Information Commissioner was in breach of their own Data Protection Act 1998. How embarrassing was that for the ICO?

However, I’ll get back to Mr Andy Buck:

 Subsequently, Mr Andy Buck, in his letter to our MP dated 10 March 2011, confirmed that the reason for it taking the Kiveton Park Practice so long in returning my medical records back to my new GP was that they found amending Mrs Barnes medical records had been an onerous task. This proves beyond a shadow of doubt that the Kiveton Park Practice had not heeded the ICO’s advice back in 2002/03 and had continued to refer to court case and litigation issues in letters of referral, and the reason for me being denied treatment.

This true story continues ………..

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