20^th January 2014 [Blog No. 43]

Hello again, it’s me, Peggy

I met with the Rt. Hon Mr Kevin J Barron MP on Saturday (11/1/2014) see copy of my letter below.

After reading the above letter Mr Barron said he had not yet got a date for when he is going to put the matter before the House but he would discuss the matter with the Minister at the same time. He said he would be very happy discussing with the Minister the contents of the bundle I’d let him have. He said its only money you know and they (The Ombudsman) do have means of settling this. He went onto to say that I’d only been given one option although I was given a different option with the Ombudsman originally, and then effectively, the pulled the rug from underneath you.

Mr Barron said it was something, as far as he was concerned, it’s the Ombudsman that should be on the spot. He said he hadn’t been granted a time yet but he would be putting it in for it next week (that being last week - 13-15 Jan 2014) and he would be letting me know.

I told him that the Ombudsman had basically threatened me by saying if I went forward seeking a Judicial Review they would flatten me, send me bankrupt so to speak. Is that the way a Government Body works? Mr Barron’s reply was; Ok, they will, and (a) that’s wrong and (b) from the Taxpayers point of view is that we are paying millions of pounds year on year on litigation and if all the issues are about when the people don’t get the service people ought to get, or would expect to get from the National Health Service, is negligence and courts the only way forward?

My husband chipped in with “this case has been ongoing since 1987 and it must have cost thousands of pounds of taxpayers’ money. Mr Barron confirmed that it kept the solicitors going (and referred to a particular firm who used to do NHS Clinical Negligence claims and who had work for the Defendant Trust on my case)

He referred to them squealing now that they’ve cut Legal Aid. He also referred to it being unfortunate if people were denied Justice because they hadn’t any money. My husband referred to Atteys Solicitors being sent to the wall by the SRA, and that we had no sympathy for them for the way that firm run my case into the ground.

I’ve been trying to obtain from the SRA a copy of their actual report for striking-off Atteys but as you can see from the copy letter below (addressed to Mr Barron) they simply refer him to their Website which tells you nothing about what the actually found during their intervention. Now, is this the SRA being transparent?

Whilst I am pleased that Mr Barron is prepared to bring this matter up before the House I must say that I am disappointed that the parameters have been narrowed to only take into account the Ombudsman issue, thereby letting the NHS and solicitors off the hook for their part. He had said, in the past, that the Ombudsman had used tricks on me.

One of the first tricks the Ombudsman pulled was to split my complaint into two parts by them giving it two complaint numbers and limiting my complaint to it just being a complaint against the Kiveton Group Practice. By them limiting the parameters of my complaint in this way has allowed the clinicians in the NHS get off the hook for their part in my maltreatment, which unfortunately has also been reinforced now by Mr Barron not bring that part of my case before the House!

You cannot trust either the SRA or the Ombudsman they are not there to assist the general public.

It looks as if I am now going to have to peruse my library of sound recordings of conversations with solicitors, Barristers and medics alike, so you can actually hear the way in which they have treated me over the years, and the hostilities. The time has come to expose them all!

This true story continues …….

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