17th July 2015 [Blog No. 65]
Hello again, it’s me, Peggy
To-date I am still waiting for an appointment date from Leeds for the
consultation with Mr Ray Monkhouse at the Leeds Teaching Hospital. The referral
letter (according to my medical records) had been created on 8 October 2014. On
6 May 2015 it was confirmed to my husband that the referral letter was actually
sent via fax from our GP Practice on 29 October 2014, three weeks later.
From the information I have it is blatantly obvious that I am well and
truly being discriminated against by our NHS because on the 29 July 2015 I will
have been waiting for a period of 9-months, notwithstanding the apparent
further delay of 3-weeks before the referral letter was actually faxed to Leeds
by my GP’s Practice.
I requested of the GP Practice a copy of the referral letter together
with any enclosures that had been sent onto Leeds. Whilst I did expect to pay
their reasonable costs for copying together with the standard charge for
applying for copy records they charged me fifty quid in all for copying just 7
sheets of paper. However, I note in the print-off copy of the referral letter (see
copy below) Dr S M Hussain had incorrectly stated that it was I who had
specifically asked to be referred to their services in Leeds, and I believe
his statement was very misleading and was one of the reasons for them not
giving me an appointment date for me to see Ray Monkhouse.
It had been Paul Blenkinsop (who termed his status as being an Advance
Practitioner) at the GP Practice who had said I should not have been left to my
own devices in diagnosing and treating myself regarding my Right foot condition,
and that he would be referring me to an orthopaedic surgeon in Manchester, and I
fully agreed with him. Strangely, that referral came through for an appointment
to be made at the Rotherham DGH and that after he had been made fully aware
that I would not wish to take a dog for treatment in the RDGH orthopaedic
department.
As I said in my last blog; I did receive a form in April (duplicated by
post on the very same day) from the Leeds Hospital asking me if I still wanted
the consultation with Mr Monkhouse.
I completed both forms advising them that I did and sent them back to
Leeds (in duplicate one by recorded delivery post) and I’ve heard nothing since,
albeit the recorded form was delivered
to Leeds Hospital and signed for by a J Farrell on 20/4/2015, and that
was 3-months ago.
See copy of Royal Mail delivery slip below:
You will no doubt recollect from reading my blog in April 2015 that I’d
been requesting of Sir Kevin Barron MP the name of the organisation who was
already investigating Health Service Ombudsman Dame Julie Mellor. I wrote to
him for the third time on this issue on 2nd July with a follow-up
fax on 13/7/2015 but to-date I have not received any response. It’s obvious he’s
stone-walling me thereby covering the back of Dame Julie Mellor, and I allege her
“corrupt staff”.
This true story continues. I am not going away and its obvious I’m
not on my own in this, others are having similar problems when things go wrong,
and the back covering culture by our NHS, Solicitors, MPs and Ombudsman’s
Office alike has to come to an end …….
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