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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