17^th 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 2^nd 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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