22 September 2013 [Blog No. 34]

Hello again, it’s me, Peggy

I’m still going on here in my blog today about the Heath Service Ombudsman trying to get away from Mr Barron MP’s request for clear answers to his letters to them regarding my complaint. You can see from the copy of Mr Barron’s letter dated 24 June 2013 as copied below that they are clearly stone-walling him, and still are to this very day because he is still waiting for a response to his letter dated 22^nd August, as mentioned in my previous blog. Mr Barron does state in his letter copied below that, and I quote; “………. and both she and I are unhappy with your current stance which we believe is preventing her from receiving justice”.

We appear to be just going around in circles, albeit Mr Barron MP did make a comment to me about the contents of one of the Ombudsman’s letters being a trick. On another occasion Mr Barron told me that he believed the Ombudsman's office had got their backs up against the wall by the way its been handled over the past two years.  They also give one case two case reference numbers, and I allege that by them doing this it’s just another trick in which to allow them separate vital evidence from their investigations.

In any event why should the Health Service Ombudsman want to stoop so low as to want to trick people, especially when Health Service Ombudsman Dame Julie Mellor preaches in the Daily Telegraph about them now having transparency in their dealings and it being the way forward? What a hypocrite?  

My husband had cause to complain himself to the Health Service Ombudsman again quite recently, about the extremely poor treatment that he has received at the hands of the Rotherham DGH NHS Trust.

The Health Service Ombudsman declined to Review his case brought against the RDGH NHS Trust regarding him being prescribed Lipitor when the consultant had been clearly advised by me (in a sound recorded consultation) that he was intolerant to Statins, and that Statins made him very ill.

After him taking Lipitor for 3-weeks his GP at the Kiveton Park Primary Care Centre advised him, due to him being very ill, to stop taking the Lipitor and he was subsequently diagnosed by a GP at the same practice as having suffered a stroke. However, this also shows how we've been maltreated by medics because the GP failed to send for a blue-light response. He stopped him driving forthwith and just made routine appointments for him to have blood tests done at the Practice (two days hence) and made a routine appointment for him to have a CT Scan done at the RDGH which did not take place until days after the event. When Mr Barron MP saw my husband a couple of days or so after him seeing the GP, Mr Barron thought he was dying because he looked so ill.

A further complaint was also not upheld by the Ombudsman where he had complained about him discovering in his medical records, held at the RDGH, where a consultant had referred to him as; “Fortunately this man is still around to tell the tale”. And, the consultant had further referred to my husband in the same letter as “it” by saying; “it is still fit enough for repair”.

The Ombudsman had asked him to wait while his further two complaints had progressed through the RDGH complaints procedure, which he did. The Ombudsman then sent him two separate Complaint Forms to fill in due to, they said, it being about two separate issues. He completed two separate forms as requested which had the same Case Reference number written on them by the Ombudsman’s Office. He marked the Forms as Part 1 and Part 2 of the same complaint. By the two complaints being linked together it showed that the RDGH were discriminating against him treatment wise, for him daring to complain.

He’s just received two separate letters back from the Ombudsman’s Office advising him that they are now treating his complaint as two separate complaints and they have given them two separate case reference numbers. The case numbers (as you can see from the letters copied here) are polls apart and show clearly that the Health Service Ombudsman is currently receiving thousands of complaints from the public. It shows there are 2,590 cases just between my husband’s two case numbers alone. Apart from that, can you imagine the extra costs of the silly beggars investigating the two complain separately. That alone tells me it’s a scam?

I’d have cause to lodge a formal complaint in year 2001 against Dr Tooth, at what was then called the Kiveton Park Medical Practice. You can see for yourself from their letter of response dated July 24^th 2001 (copied below) that all four GPs (Dr D Say, Dr J Reid, Dr N Thorman and Dr H Speight) had signed off the letter and in paragraph four they said, and I quote; “A final concern to us is how you intend to receive GP services hereafter”.

You will recall from a previous blog that when accessing my medical records at that GP Practice in 2002 I discovered “Litigation Issues” and reference to “Court Case” reported in my notes and in letters of referral to Consultants, and this been the reason for my not being able to obtain proper corrective treatment from our NHS for my on-going knee and foot problems. Even after the ICO’s intervention in 2002/03 the KPPCC had failed to remove the offensive and unwarranted wording from my medical records held at their group practice. This matter was not addressed by the Kiveton Park Primary Care Centre (KPPCC) until around April 2011 after further intervention by the Chief Executive (Andy Buck) at Rotherham Primary Care Trust.

In a review of my medication one GP at the KPPCC had said he intended reducing the dose of one of my prescribed medication from 40mgs to 20mgs. However, after I obtained the new prescription from the chemist I fortunately noticed that he had actually increased the intended dose of 20mgs by 4x the amount, to 80mgs. Was he trying to kill me by any chance???

I allege that what they have done, however, is for the aforementioned signatories of the GP letter of 24 July 2001 is to kill any chance of my obtaining proper corrective treatment for my Right foot problem, even to this very day!!

My husband and I had had concerns about Dr Tooth when at one point in a consultation I’d asked him, at a time when I was seeking treatment from him, where the Hippocratic Oath was in all of this, and he retorted with; “Oh that, that was something dreamed-up in the jungle and we don’t go by that anymore”. What more can I say, I think that sums it if beautifully??

Both the GMC and the Health Service Ombudsman have failed to uphold any complaints put to them, and by them so-doing I allege that they have aided and abetted the medics in their adverse/non-treatment of me.

See copy of my letter dated 16^th August 2001 to Mr Barron MP where I put my concerns to him about the attitude of the aforesaid doctors at the KPPCC.

This true story continues …….

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17^th September 2013 [blog No. 33]

Hello again, it’s me, Peggy

Mills Kemp & Brown Solicitors agreed to take instruction on my Clinical Negligence Claim against the Doncaster and Bassetlaw Hospitals NHS Trust on 8^th June 2001 due to new evidence that had come to light regarding the inappropriate and negligent administration of a Guanethidine Pain Block injection into my Right foot. The injection had been injected directly into my Right foot, as opposed to a vein, in November 1993.

Furthermore, and well after the case had gone pear-shaped and mentioned on a previous blog, in December 2008 I was advised by a consultant at the Rotherham DGH that he was very experienced in the administration of Guanethidine Pain-Block injections, and he advised me that it should not have been injected into my Right foot, for pain I was suffering in my Right knee (from the bony lesion being situated on the medial aspects of my knee) in any event! The consultation was sound recorded by my husband so I can prove what I am saying to you here.

I had been vigorously trying to obtain disclosure of what had become known as the 4^th Bassetlaw Hospital x-ray which had been taken of my knee at the Bassetlaw Hospital on 19/08/91. It was a Lat-View X-ray of my Right knee and it clearly showed the bony lesion to be situated on the medial aspect of my Right knee on that date.

You will recall from my previous blogs that my husband had seen that particular x-ray on three separate occasions and I had seen it on two of those occasions. On one of those occasions it had been shown to us by Orthopaedic Surgeon Mr Zeraati while at the Bassetlaw Hospital on 5^th November 1996. Mr Zeraati referred to the bony lesion on that day as been a “foreign body”. At a subsequent consultation with Dr Renshaw (Pain Consultant) at the Bassetlaw Hospital, Dr Renshaw confirmed to me that it was not foreign to me, it was a piece of bone.

As I have said earlier blogs, my Husband actually held that very same Lat-View x-ray on 3^rd November 1997 when he identified the 19/08/91 Lat-View x-ray (and the bony lesion seen in that film) to Radiographer Carole Perry and Medical Records Clerk Patricia Hewitt. After promising a copy of that x-ray on 3/12/97 on 4/12/1997 they all denied it had ever existed.

The piece of bone had been left in my Right knee at the time Mr Majumdar (Orthopaedic Surgeon) unnecessarily removed my Right knee cap (patella) from my Right knee in August 1987.

I had pursued disclosure by Bassetlaw Hospital via the courts and I was attempting to overturn an adverse Order made by Lord Justice Mantell sitting in the Royal Courts of Justice on 6 April 2000. A further appeal hearing was due to be heard at the RCJ in London in July 2001. After the hearing in the RCJ in London on 6 April 2000 I met –up with solicitor Michael Pringshiem who had sat in on my case. He advised me that as soon as LJ Mantell had opened his mouth he knew I was being stitched-up. After he had examined all my court paperwork he advised me that neither the solicitors nor the judiciary had adhered to procedure in my case.

When the appeal was further refused at the July 2001 hearing the Rt. Hon Mr Kevin J Barron MP had rightly suggested to Mr Brain that my case should go to a Judicial Review Hearing. However, Mr Brain (the solicitor at MKB) refused to do that. Mine and Mr Barron MP’s request for it to go to a Judicial Review was also put to a Human Rights Lawyer in Nottingham but he suggested he put the case direct to Strasbourg.

Back to Solicitor Mr Brain at MKB; as I said, he took my case on in a claim concerning the mal-administration of the Guanethidine Pain Block Injection against the Doncaster and Bassetlaw Hospitals NHS Trust and applied for public funding. He made the application to the LSC under an incorrect name of the Defendant, that of Bassetlaw Hospital & Community Services NHS Trust instead of Doncaster and Bassetlaw Hospitals NHS Trust, and that was only for starters.

I allege that he knew that if my case came before the courts again naming the Defendant as Bassetlaw Hospital and Community Services NHS Trust, when I had brought a previous case against them regarding my Right knee problem that the case would be thrown out of court as being an abuse of process. As the case progressed Mr Brain appeared to me to do as much wrong as he could.

See copy of my fax to Mr Brain dated 20 February 2004 making comment on what he was doing wrong at that time. I had noted that he had failed to furnish Professor Galasko with Isotope scans dated 19/05/03 from the SNGH. Mr Brain tried to make out that he had not been sent those scans but my husband and I had accessed my medical records and Linda Gilbert had confirmed to us that she had sent those scans onto Mr Brian at MKB firstly on 7/1/2004 and again on 10/2/2004.

I had also shown concern (as had Mr Barron MP) at Mr Brain instructing Professor Galasko as been my medical expert to make a medico-legal report when Professor Galasko had made Mr Brain aware that he was a friend and colleague of Professor Dandy, an Orthopaedic Surgeon in Cambridge who was/had been severely criticised for alleged clinical negligence on his part in the case regarding my Right knee.

Furthermore, Professor Galasko had also advised Mr Brain that he was not qualified in the administration of Guanethidine Pain-Block Injections, and this was a core issue in my allegations against the Bassetlaw Hospital in this particular case.

I was also at odds with Barrister Shannon in Manchester when at the Conference on 1/10/2003, with him, Mr Brain, Galasko and my husband and I. Mr Shannon had allowed Prof. Galasko make several factual mistakes go unchecked and/or amended in his medico-legal report dated 29 May 2003. The errors and omissions allowed Professor Galasko to skate around events where Professor Dandy (his friend and Colleague) was being accused of negligence.  

You can see from reading the copy fax below that The Rt. Hon Mr Kevin J Barron MP agreed with me in these concerns.

At a meeting with Mr Brain Mr Brain had actually accused Mr Shannon of having his hand in the till. It was at a time when Mr Shannon was seeking urgent payment from MKB.My husband sound recorded the conversation so I can prove what I am saying here to be true. I also made allegations to the Bar Council about Mr Shannon and he subsequently refused to take instruction on my case.

See below a copy of my fax dated 2 March 2004 to Mr Brain at MKB. I think it sums-up exactly where I was coming from.

Mr Brain went on to instruct Barrister a Mr Elgott, and subsequently Mr Elgott, Professor Galasko and Mr Brain went ahead and had a conference without inviting me to attend. Even in Mr Brain’s Attendance Notes he himself questions the validity of them having the conference without my having had any input in that conference. I alleged that Barrister Mr Elgott was simply sabotaging my case so as to enable the LSC revoke funding of my case, and of course he did succeed in doing that.

I am coping below a copy of a fax received from French & Company, a firm of solicitors who was prepared to assist me in putting my case to the media. Mr Hale was of course cautious of pending court cases. However, there are none pending now so I intend taking Mr Hale up on his offer of help.

This true story continues …….

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8th September 2013 [blog No. 32]

Hello again, it’s me, Peggy

To the best of my knowledge the Health Service Ombudsman (Director Gwen Harrison) has not yet responded to the Rt. Hon Mr Kevin J Barron MPs letter of 22 August 2013 seeking clarification on whether-or-not my case (Ref: EN-118242 & EN-148574) (as mentioned in my Blog No. 31) has been concluded by the Ombudsman to a point where my case can proceed to a Judicial Review.

In my last Blog (No.31) I omitted to insert my own letter dated 20^th August 2013 to Mr Barron MP where I showed concern that my case had not gone before the Ombudsman proper, and it had merely been kicked into the long grass with intent to prevent it proceeding to a Judicial Review. To enable you to keep up to speed with what is currently happening see copy of my letter to Mr Barron MP copied below.

I am very concerned that they are simply kicking my case against The Kiveton Park Primary Care Centre into the long grass because my case has been with the PHSO for in excess of two years and yet my husband has had a response from the Legal Ombudsman stating, and I quote exactly from the letter;

“…. I would reiterate that all ombudsman services are designed to be quick and informal ways of resolving disputes or complaints about professionals or other service providers. Importantly they are intended as far as possible to bring a degree of finality to disputes, and there must eventually be an end to the process. The end of the process is, in effect, the ombudsman decision, which parties must either accept or reject. They cannot accept in part, or attach conditions, or expect to be able to continue to argue or challenge”.

Albeit my husband had sent a letter direct to Chief Legal Ombudsman via special delivery post and marked as being a RESTRICTED DOCUMENT to Chief Legal Ombudsman Adam Sampson after seeing him on Breakfast TV recently, the letter of response, as received from Ranjit Thaper (Resolution Coordination Team) made no mentioned of Adam Sampson’s name. From that we can only assume that it was intercepted and it never reached Adam Sampson. Justice, what justice?

In any event; according to the article in the Daily Telegraph (as mentioned in my last Blog, Ombudsman Dame Julie Mellor clearly stated that only one in ten case get as far as the Ombudsman. Obviously 90% are just turned away with the message; “Sorry you will be disappointed but there was nothing untoward found with the service provider”.

I have just been reviewing what I have put on my Blog and discovered that what I blogged on YouTube between 9/1/2013 to 24/1/2013 does not appear on these blogs listed here. Therefore over the next few days I am going to re-introduce them individually so you can see my story from the beginning. I am sorry for any confusion caused.

This true story continues …….

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