13^th April 2014 [Blog No. 50]

Hello again, it’s me, Peggy

I met with the Rt. Hon Sir Kevin J Barron MP again yesterday (Saturday 12/4/2014) after receiving a copy of his letter dated 9/4/2014 to Dame Julie Mellor Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman.

See copy of my letter to Mr Barron copied below together with a copy of his letter to Dame Julie Mellor dated 9/4/2014. You should find them self-explicit.

What Mr Barron did say after reading my letter at the meeting yesterday was that Julie Mellor may feel that she has no reason to respond to either Dr Poulter MP or even him, regarding my complaint. I said that if that were to be the case then it would be yet another attempt by the Ombudsman to kick my complaint into the long grass until it is lost and forgotten.

I explained that back in, or around 1999, the Ombudsman at that time did a similar thing, and in the Ombudsman’s decision letter turning down my complaint at that time, said if you do not understand my decision letter speak to Mr Barron MP, and you said it was because I’d had solicitors on my case at that time and this would still be flagging-up.

However, Mr Barron, yesterday, went on to confirm that he could have another adjournment debate after the Easter recess, if she does not give him a quick response to his letter and he was prepared to bring the matter up in the house again but this time in an adjournment Debate in Health Questions, over the operation of the Health Service Ombudsman. He said he was not sure when the next health questions would be but he would be looking into that after the recess.

I did make comment to Mr Barron again that I was very upset and annoyed about the way Dr Poulter MP (the undersecretary of State for Health) had inferred during the debate in the House on 6/2/2014 that I had somehow nicked my x-rays and some of my medical records and the reason for me having those controversial records in my possession. I understand that I am unable to do anything about Dr Poulter MP’s remarks because he is covered in some way by what is termed Parliamentary Privilege.

I reiterate again here; I allege that Dr Poulter discredited me when speaking in the House by inferring that I must have thieved some of my medical records. You can hear him saying as much in the video recording made of the adjournment debate in my previous blog, Blog No. 46 dated 2^nd March 2014.

During the Easter break I intend doing a resume of all my blogs to-date, showing how I’ve been maltreated by the NHS, Department of Health, so-called Medical Experts and the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman..       

This true story continues …….

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7^th April 2014 [Blog No. 49]

Hello again, it’s me, Peggy

I’ve been experimenting with putting the sound recording on my blog here of the consultation I had with Ms Amanda Rees, Orthopaedic Consultant at the Rotherham District General Hospital on 23 December 1998 together with some pics. You will see that in my attempt here I am showing you various x-rays and scans where in the x-rays you can clearly see the bony lesion that was eventually removed from the medial aspect of my Right knee at the Thornbury Hospital on 22 November 2002.

At the consultation with Ms Rees on 23/12/1998 Ms Rees reviewed the x-rays and scans that I had taken with me, those undertaken at various hospitals. When reviewing one of the x-rays of my Right knee she advised me that she could identify flashes of metal in my knee and requested further x-rays.

When I attended the x-ray department the radiographer said that he was surprised that Ms Rees had specifically requested x-rays to be done on a machine that had been rendered obsolete but he went onto say that what the lady wants the lady gets. The x-rays turned out to be covered in artefacts thereby rendering the x-rays not fit for purpose. The expert at the ensuing Independent Review at the RDGH reported the X-ray machine to have been made obsolete due to it having damaged Intensifier screens, whatever they were?

When my husband (he’s the one shown in the photo in the audio/video by the way) and I returned to Ms Rees’ consultation room my husband realised that Ms Rees had changed her stance somewhat, so he switched on his sound recorder and recorded the remainder of the consultation. That’s what you are about to hear in the audio/video below.

You will hear Ms Rees denying the RDGH having any medical records due to them being destroyed after five years, she said. The medical records that I hold are complete and go back as far as 1954.

What you are about to hear is the then ongoing consultation with Ms Rees. The ruler shown in the photographs of the x-rays showing the bony lesion (I still have the bony lesion in my possession) is calibrated in centimetres.

At one point in the conversation you will hear Ms Rees sarcastically advising us that we would have to consult a “clever solicitor” if we wanted to know what it was that was actually in my knee. Now, that is what I had gone to see her for, and I allege that she was clearly covering the backs of her colleagues here. Where is the Hippocratic Oath?

After the consultation on 23/12/1998 Ms Rees wanted to refer me onto a pain management specialist as opposed to her operating on my knee. She obtained copy notes from the Bassetlaw Hospital that referred to litigation and forwarded these onto the Pain Management specialist.

The matter progressed onto an Independent Review via Mr Mark Griffiths at the Community Health Centre in Rotherham. You can see details of the Review Hearing at the RDGH on Blog No. 24 dated 27^th April 2013. Hopefully, in the very near future, I will be able to post that sound recording on my blog because that too became a complete fit-up. I did request a copy of the “Draft Report” prior to the Final Report being completed because I understood I should have had sight of the Draft, but I was denied it. So much for transparency in out NHS!!

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24^th March 2014 [Blog No. 48]

Hello again, it’s me, Peggy

I met with the Rt. Hon Sir Kevin Barron MP on Saturday last (22/3/2014) and he confirmed that he considered he had already given PHSO Dame Julie Mellor sufficient time to respond and that he would be chasing her up for her response and comments.

See copy of my letter dated 22^nd March 2014 to Mr Barron MP copied below:-

Please find below a copy of the sound recording made on 15/5/2009 at the consultation with Mr Paul Cooke (Orthopaedic Surgeon) at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Oxford. Albeit you will no doubt find it self-explicit I feel I should make further comments here.

Again I wish to apologize for the poor quality reproduced sound recording. I’m just not there yet so you will have to bear with me a while longer.

The referral to Mr Cooke was via Dr Say at the KPPCC and he was fully aware that the referral to Mr Cooke was to be made under the NHS. However, Dr Say made an appointment for me to see Mr Cooke on a Private paying basis, which delayed the appointment by it having to be re-made. I allege that this was a willful act on Dr Say’s part.

I will not reiterate here everything Mr Cooke said in his referral letter to Mr Blundell at the Sheffield Northern General because his letter can be found in my 1^st December 2013 Blog, (Blog No. 41) I did note, and you will also see that Mr Cooke advises Mr Blundell that I had been referred to him by the Health Service Ombudsman. Mr Blundell refused me the NHS referral from Mr Cooke. I did, however, eventually get to see Mr Blundell after a fresh referral (approximately a year later) from my new GP. That appointment did not materialize in Mr Blundell offering me any treatment.

Dr Say himself had to refer me to the SNGH for the recommended scans because Mr Blundell had refused the NHS referral from Paul Cooke. Where is the Hippocratic Oath in all of this???  I did manage to obtain an appointment with the Orthotics Department at the SNGH via my then GP, who did make me two sets of inner soles and who referred me back to my then new GP because they were making my foot worse. Since then I have received no further treatment for my Right foot.

This true story continues …….

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14^th March 2014 [Blog No. 47]

Hello again, it’s me, Peggy

I met with the Rt. Hon Sir Kevin Barron MP on Saturday last (8/3/2014) and he confirmed that he had received a written response from Dr Daniel Poulter MP (the Parliamentary Undersecretary of State for Health) but he went onto say that it was still in his file down at his London Office.

When my husband put it to Mr Barron that we were not expecting anything in our favour due to the way Dr Poulter had reacted during the Debate and because all he had done on 6/2/2014 was exactly the same as the medics, he covered the backs of the medics in my case by trying to discredit me. Mr Barron did say; “well he ought to know because he’s a (B***dy) doctor”.

I have now (yesterday 13/3/2014) just received a copy of Dr Poulter’s letter dated 17/2/2014 from Mr Barron MP, and I have learned from past experience to firstly look at the penultimate paragraph to see if it says; “I know you will be disappointed ….” And of course it does. My husband was right in what he said to Mr Barron last Saturday because all Dr Poulter has done in his written response to Mr Barron is to reiterate certain damming aspects of what he had said during the debate. I am, however, pleased to see that Dr Poulter has copied his letter to Mr Barron onto Dame Julie Mellor, the Health Service Ombudsman.

I am now waiting to see what Dame Julie Mellor has to say about the matter because Dr Poulter did not address the issues of the Health Service Ombudsman changing the complaint number half way through the complaint, nor the matter of the breach of confidentially by Mr Lee Hedges (PHSO’s Office) phoning and speaking to the KPPCC in September 2012 without him first obtaining my consent for him to so do!

Furthermore, the PHSO had asked me (Via Mr Barron MP) how much I wanted to settle the case which proves that the PHSO admitted there was a case for the KPPCC to settle financially. Mr Barron, however, had agreed that I was not in a position (as a layperson) to set quantum, it was up to the PHSO. Mr Barron MP also said what the PHSO was doing here was a “Trick”.

See copy of Dr Poulter’s letter dated 17^th February 2014 copied below:-

I am gearing-up for putting more sound recordings on my next blog.

This true story continues …….

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2^nd March 2014 [Blog No. 46]

Hello again, it’s me, Peggy

I have notice that the link has now been lost to the House of Commons NHS Treatment Debate on 6/2/2014, in my blog No. 44 dated 9/2/2014. It was a link to BBC iPlayer which I now understand expires after about 7-days.

However, I have made an attempt to copy the recording and I am inserting it here in four parts. Sorry for the lack of high quality sound and vision lost in the copying but before I transferred the video onto my blog is was fully understandable.

I am still awaiting the written response from Dr Daniel Poulter MP (the Parliamentary Undersecretary of State for Health) via Sir Kevin J Barron MP.

This true story continues …….

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23^rd February 2014 [Blog No. 45]

Hello again, it’s me, Peggy

Unfortunately, I was unable to meet with the Rt. Hon Sir Kevin J Barron MP on Saturday 22/2/2014 but I do intend seeing him at his next Constituency Surgery on 8^th March 2014 when I intend to discuss whether-or-not Dr Poulter MP (Minister for Health) has responded to him by letter, regarding the debate in the House of Commons on 6/2/2014 about my treatment and the PHSO as mentioned in my last blog.

As I have said in an earlier blog, I intend putting extracts of sound recordings made at consultations with medics, medical experts and solicitors alike so you can actually hear what they have had to say about my treatment and clinical negligence claim over the years.

You will have to bear with me on this because inserting sound recording extracts into my blog is a completely new experience to me, and it might take me a while to get them inserted correctly. However, here goes………………

The first recording was taken from the consultation with Consultant Mr Giles (Fracture Clinic) on 11 December 2008 at the Rotherham District General Hospital (RDGH). I had been referred to Mr Giles by Dr Say at the Kiveton Park Primary Care Centre for the ongoing problem with my Right foot.

You can hear for yourselves how Mr Giles wanted to amputate my Right foot, by amputating it just below my knee. I consider this to have been a matter of; “if you come back to me I will take your leg off”.

Now, what he did not advise me of at this time was that the thinning of the bones in my Right foot is actually due now to osteoporosis in my right foot due to the botched Guanethidine Pain Block, and to think, these are the people we are supposed to trust with our health and well-being!

The next sound recording that I am inserting here is an extract taken from the consultation at the RDGH Fracture Clinic a few days later (15/12/2008) where I met a consultant who advised me that he was very experienced in the administration of Guanethidine Pain Block injections. You can hear him advising me that if the injection missed the vein (as it had done in my case in November 1993) then I did have a problem.

In a later blog I will be inserting the sound recording made of the consultation on 15/5/2009 with Mr Paul Cooke in Oxford where and when he advised me that he totally disagreed with Mr Giles amputating my Right foot in any event, and that my problem was due to the Guanethidine Pain-Block injection some 15-years earlier and which should been treated back then.

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9^th February 2014 [Blog No. 44]

Hello again, it’s me, Peggy

I met with the Rt. Hon Sir Kevin J Barron MP on Saturday (8/2/2014) after him bringing my complaint against the PHSO up in the House of Commons on 6/2/2014. See copy of my letter below.

I have responded by email to Dr Daniel Poulter, commenting on his Webpage link relating to the transcript of the House of Commons debate on 6/2/2014 on Mrs M Barnes Treatment by the NHS. See copy of my email copied below.

Dear Dr Poulter

I wish to take this opportunity here to respond to your Webpage. Dr Dan's work in Parliament MRS M. Barnes (NHS Treatment) (6 Feb 2014)

Firstly, Dr Poulter, I would like say how skilfully you put-over the hatchet job done on my PHSO complaint by the civil servants who drafted your speech. However, I use the term “skilfully” loosely because your civil servants simply tried to discredit me personally, as opposed to them and you considering the single issue put to the PHSO by The Rt. Hon Sir Kevin J Barron MP. That was the issue of the Kiveton Primary Care Centre (KPPCC) not amending my medical records in 2002, in accordance with the advice they received from the Information Commissioner at that time.

I had, since having a botched operation on my Right knee in 1987, tried to obtain proper corrective treatment from several medical professionals, via my GP. However, when I reviewed my medical records it was discovered that my records contained reference to litigation issues, and the same reference had been made in letters of referral from my GP to other Healthcare Providers since 1990 and the reason for me not being able to obtain the required treatment. I had referred this data issue to the Information Commissioner (ICO) in September 2002, and my complaint was upheld.

It was noted in your speech that during your berating and while trying to discredit me, you yourself made reference to previous litigation having taken place over the years, just the same as the KPPCC and earlier GPs had done in letters of referral since 1990.

You also referred to Judge Simon throwing out my Clinical Negligence case (a totally different matter) but what you failed to mention in any event was the matter of HHJ Moore (in 5^th September 2005, at an earlier Hearing) and him having directed Browne Jacobson Solicitors (in Court) that the Defendant Trust had a case to answer and to get the case settled. The judge instructed the Court Clerk to pass back to us (including Browne Jacobson solicitors) all the court case files, which he did (including those filed into court) albeit we thought HHJ Moore’s actions in doing that to be highly irregular. HHJ Moore further directed me to listen to my husband and not to be too picky and wanting every penny. This fact is actually written in HHJ Moore’s transcript of the Court Hearing for 5/9/2005.

I know it’s getting away from the single PHSO issue but it has to be said that a Part 36 offer to settle the clinical negligence claim was drawn-up by me with the aid of Mr Barron MP, and then served on the Defendant’s solicitors. The offer to settle was disregarded/ignored by Browne Jacobson solicitors (contrary to HHJ Moore’s Directions on 5/9/2005) and the case, therefore, had to be returned to court.

I discovered in early 2011, that my medical records had been returned back to the KPPCC via the South Riding Health Services Support Agency (SRHSSA).

I reiterate here, the issue of the KPPCC not amending my medical records back in 2002 was the single issue as put to the PHSO by Mr Barron MP in September 2011, together with several documents dating back 20-odd years, and some more recent, as supporting evidence showing how the offending data had been discriminatory against me and used to block me from obtaining proper treatment for my knee, and subsequently, my ongoing Right foot problem.

The complaint against the KPPCC was given PHSO Ref No. EN-118242. I mention this here because it has been confirmed by the PHSO (in a sound recorded telephone conversation) that the same reference number followed the case through to the end, and yet the PHSO in December 2012, for some reason, one better known to them, changed the case reference number to EN-148574.

Mr Barron MP, as he said in the House on 6/2/2014, had received a letter dated 10 March 2012 from Chief Executive (NHS Rotherham) confirming my medical records had been retrieved from the SRHSSA by the KPPCC for amendment in order for them to comply with the ICO’s advice (which they had received in year 2002). Mr Buck confirmed in his letter that amending my medical records had taken the KPPCC several weeks (around 6-weeks) because implementing the Commissioner’s advice was onerous.

You, Dr Poulter, go on in furthering your attempts to discredit me by accusing me of theft and/or obtaining my medical records by other criminal means, and I quote from your Webpage; “My hon. Friend will be aware that patients have open access to their records and can request to see them, but it is not for a patient forcibly to remove relevant clinical information from them”.

All the data evidence, including x-rays, scans and reports that I have obtained from the medical professionals has been done via legitimate legal means at all times.  

Mind you, I bet you cannot believe how I have managed to come by such comprehensive and damming data in my medical records and/or x-rays/reports. However, I can assure you the aforementioned medical records were obtained via legitimate legal means at all times.

I decided to go public on this matter because I felt I had nothing further to lose due to the wilful negligence by the KPPCC and those that went before them since 1990 having caused me unrecoverable damage to my quality of life by referring to past litigation issues in letters of referral.

I understand, Dr Poulter, you intend writing to Mr Barron MP since him clarifying various issues with you after the House adjourned on 6/2/2014.

See my blog for the full and true on-going story: http://moniqueannbarnes.blogspot.com/

Comments made by Mrs M A Barnes (9/2/2014).

Your Sincerely

M A Barnes

6, Pine Avenue

South Anston

Sheffield

S25 5HA

Email: mabarnes_imali@hotmail.co.uk

For your information: See link to House of Commons debate on Mrs M Barnes NHS Treatment – 6/2/2014: http://www.theyworkforyou.com/search/?s=speaker%3A10027+section:debate&o=d

To see the actual debate click on this link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/i/b03ty9bk/?t=5h21m25s

This true story continues …….

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