27^th October 2013 [Blog No. 38]

Hello again, it’s me, Peggy

The Health Service Ombudsman has eventually taken her precious time to respond to the letter dated 22 August 2013 to Gwen Harrison (Director) PHSO’s Office from The Rt. Hon Mr Kevin Barrron MP.

It’s actually taken the Ombudsman 10-weeks to respond, and what a cranked-up response it is. Even Mr Barron was taken aback when I saw him yesterday, at the content of the letter he has received.

The Health Service Ombudsman, among other things, has ACTUALLY THREATENED ME with the threat of crippling me (this time financially) if I even dream of taking this case to a Judicial Review Hearing, and me, a disabled old-age pensioner!!!

Mr Scot Henning at the NHSLA did exactly the same along with the NHLSA’s instructed solicitors, Browne Jacobson in Nottingham.

I quote here from the final paragraph of the PHSO’s letter; “Should Mrs Barnes initiate proceedings we will defend them. If we are successful we will be entitled to apply for our costs. We have successfully applied for costs in previous cases. I would therefore strongly advise Mrs Barnes to seek independent legal advice before deciding to initiate any court proceedings against us”.

The letter from the Ombudsman has been signed-off this time by a Suzannah Beazley, Head of Review Team! Who the hell is this woman here that thinks that she is in a position at the PHSO’s office to try and scare me off?

Is this what the PHSO call “BRITISH JUSTICE”? It would appear from their letter that  Ombudsman Dame Julie Mellor’s BRITISH JUSTICE is the same as Dr Tooth’s version of the “HIPPOCRATIC OATH” (see a previous blog on Kiveton Primary Care Centre) that is, that it was just something dreamed-up in the jungle, to satisfy the underdogs of this world, and they don’t go by that anymore!

And, is this what Health Service Ombudsman Dame Julie Mellor meant when she reported in the Daily Telegraph on 13 August 2013 that now she is the Health Service Ombudsman they will be seen to be “TRANSPARENT” in their dealings! They are trying to gag me! What part of the body is this woman talking from her …..? See Julie Mellor’s article in my blog dated 25 August 2013, blog No. 31.

Whatever next? Mr Barron could not believe it. He reiterated yesterday (26/10/2013) what he has said to me several time before, and that is that he is prepared to bring the matter up in the House with the Health Minister.

Mr Barron did say that this was the end of it but what I cannot understand is that the PHSO back in September 2012 had asked me/Mr Barron to provide them with the level of compensation I wanted to achieve. Mr Barron wrote back to the PHSO saying that they themselves would have a better idea of Quantum, and asked them to set the amount of compensation, my knowing, he said, it would be lower than any I could expect from a court settlement.

See copied below my letter dated 26/10/2013 to Mr Barron MP and a copy of the Health Service Ombudsman’s letter dated 18 October 2013 which he handed to me at our meeting yesterday.

You can see in the 2^nd paragraph of the PHSO letter the writer refers to my complaint against the KPPCC for not amending my medical records in 2002/03 in accordance with the ICO’s advice at that time.

The ICO refused to take action against the KPPCC because, they said; the ICO was only able to issue advice to a Data Controller, and not able to take any action against them.

The KPPCC had apparently given the ICO assurance in 2002/03 that they had amended my medical records in accordance with the ICO’s advice. However, as it turned out when I moved to another GP Practice in or around November 2010 I discovered that the KPPCC had in fact not made any amendments to my medical records by removing all reference to litigation/court case etc, and in letters of referral to consultants, and I alleged that this had been the reason for me been unable to obtain medical treatment proper over the past years.

My medical records were not amended by the KPPCC until such time they had transferred reference to litigation issues court case etc onto the new GP Practice. By them so-doing the KPPCC had done exactly what they had wanted to do, they had made the new Practice aware of past litigation issues to prevent me from obtaining treatment under our NHS from the new GP Practice!

I do have proof that my medical records were not amended by the KPPCC until March 2011. The proof is contained within Chief Executive Andy Buck, Rotherham Primary Care Trust’s letter dated 11/3/2011 to Mr Barron MP. See extract, and I you can see that I quote exactly from Andy Buck’s letter;

“Thank you for your letter dated 8^th March regarding Mrs Barnes' concerns in relation to medical records. The matter has been investigated by Mrs Sue Hart, Complaints Officer and I am now in a position to respond to you.

Following Mr and Mrs Barnes' decision to leave Kiveton Park Primary Care Centre and to register with the Chantry Bridge Medical Centre, as is usual practice, the South Riding Health Service Support Agency (SRHSSA) contacted Kiveton Park practice on 1" November 2010 and requested the medical records for both Mr and Mrs Barnes, it is recorded by the Kiveton Park practice that the notes were, as requested sent to SRHSSA on 3^rd November 2010.

However, I am informed that shorty after forwarding the medical records to SRHSSA, the Kiveton Park practice received a letter from the Information Commissioners office advising them that amendments were to be made to Mrs Barnes' medical records. In order to comply with the Commissioners advice the notes had to be retrieved from Mrs Barnes' current GP Via the SRHSSA.

Whilst it is acknowledged that the Kiveton Park practice had Mrs Barnes's medical records for several weeks, it is important to note that implementing the Commissioner's advice was onerous. I am further informed that the advice given by the Commissioner has now been Implemented and verified by two senior partners at the surgery, and the medical records have been returned to the SRHSSA who will forward them on to Chantry Bridge Medical Centre.

I trust this information clarifies the position for your constituent”

Yours sincerely

Andy Buck

Chief Executive

The doctors at the Kiveton Park Primary Care Centre had blatantly lied to the ICO in 2002/3 about them having amended my medical records at that time in accordance with the ICO’s advice.

It is also blatantly obvious that the PHSO’s Office have now blatantly covered-up the fact that the doctors at the KPPCC have lied, and have whitewashed over the whole matter to the benefit of the medics at the KPPCC. It’s a continuation of the NHS cover-up culture and Dame Julie Mellor is no different to those who went before her by her doing this. She’s another sham extracting a high rate of pay from the tax-payers’ purse! Maybe they should call her “Shame Julie Mellor”.

Now, what you have to bear in mind is that Mr Barron MP has being overseeing and supporting my case against the various NHS Departments for the way they have treated me, or not treated me as the case might be, since 1998 when at that time he suggested I make my own application for disclosure of Medical Records from the Bassetlaw Hospital (the missing Bassetlaw Hospital x-rays of my Right knee) into the Worksop court.

See copied below article (dated 2005) taken from our Local Newspaper:

PARLIAMENT'S top watchdog has stepped into a six-year battle for damages against a hospital by one of his own constituents. Rother Valley MP Kevin Barron—chairman of the House of Commons Health Select Committee—has written to hospital bosses to settle long running claims made by Monica Barnes, Mrs Barnes, of Pine Avenue, South Anston, has claimed since 1999 that Bassetlaw Hospital was negligent over a foreign body in her right knee.

Her husband has championed her campaign for justice and successfully won a judgement in Sheffield County Court in September. As the case seemed likely to drag on to further hearings, Mr Barron wrote to the chief executive of Doncaster and Bassetlaw NHS Foundation Trust urging an early settlement, Mr Barron said: "I am in the process of assisting Mrs Barnes in getting a solicitor to represent her with her case if it goes to a further hearing. I believe this case has gone on for far too long and I wonder, in view of the contents of the judgement, if a quick solution can be brought to this matter”.

He calls for an amicable settlement so that all parties can be protected from further years of legal quarrel". The Trust has denied there being any foreign body or calcification in Mrs Barnes' right knee, although the couple claimed it was seen in medical films dating back to 1988.

Four years ago, Mr Barron wrote to the Chief Constable of Nottinghamshire

Police asking him to look into the claims that staff at Bassetlaw Hospital tampered with Mrs Barnes’ records. Doncaster and Bassetlaw Hospitals

NHS Trust said at the time that the claims of Mr and Mrs Barnes were without merit. A trust spokeswoman said: "We never comment on a case that is before the courts."

I allege that due to all the solicitors (about 14 and I can name them all) that have taken instruction on my claims against the NHS being bent, the back coving culture by medics, the courts, judges, and Government funded bodies have cost the taxpayer many times more than if they had paid me out at the onset.

One solicitor in Nottingham, who had been helping me for over 10-years under the LSC Help & Advice Scheme at times when I was representing myself in court, since my 60^th birthday (9 January 9 2003)  must have cost the taxpayer tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of pounds!

In September 2005 HHJ Moore instructed Bassetlaw Hospital’s solicitor, Mr Perry of Browne Jacobson, to get me paid out and he had the Court Clerk hand us all the court files back. I subsequently served a Part 36 offer (which had been calculated with the assistance of Mr Barron MP) on NHSLA’s solicitors but all they did was to acknowledge receipt of same without making me an offer of settlement.

When the case came back before the court HHJ Moore told the court that he had changed his mind, and he dismissed the case. The Court Office at Barnsley had advised me that HHJ Moore should not have given me and the Hospital’s solicitor the court files back, and so I returned them to the court. I allege that by HHJ Moore handing the files back to us and the hospital’s solicitor at the September 2005 Hearing in Sheffield, shows that he didn't want any signs of corruption seen in the files in his court. However, I still have comprehensive copies of all my case files.

This true story continues …….

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20^th October 2013 [Blog No. 37]

Hello again, it’s me, Peggy

Orthopaedic Surgeon Mr John King wrote to my GP (Dr Gita Haldar) in a letter dated 26 June 1997 advising her that he had examined me. I had made a private appointment myself to see Mr King at his Clinic on 24^th June 1997 at the Independent Hospital in London, with my Right knee problem.

In a letter to Irwin Mitchell solicitors dated 27 March 1992 Dr Gita Haldar had confirmed to my solicitor that she had referred me to Orthopaedic Surgeon Mr John King in London but this had been an outright lie. I allege that she had no intentions of referring me to Mr King and she sent me on a roundabout tour of consultants in this area who, of course, was aware of the then pending litigation against Mr Majumdar and who either refused the referrals and/or refused me treatment.

Mr King had advised my GP that I should have an MRI scan on my Right knee because he believed the diagnosis had not been properly made. He also advised that I should undergo a thermograph test.

Nothing happened so I contacted Dr Haldar asking for a copy of her letter of response to Mr King at the Independent Hospital in London. See copy of Dr Haldar’s undated letter below. Albeit the GP Practice agreed to fund the exploratory investigations themselves it does not mention my main problem, the problem with my knee.

My husband checked with Mr King’s secretary and she confirmed Mr King not having received any letter, so I contacted the GP Practice again over the matter. See copy of a further letter to Mr King dated 7^th October 1997. This time the letter was sent to Mr King by Fax via Mr Wiles, the Practice Funding Manager, and copied onto us.

There had been some confusion regarding me having the MRI scan done in London. It looked as if they were trying to wriggle-out of doing an MRI so I booked an MRI Scan to be done nearer to home, at the Claremont Hospital in Sheffield. It was undertaken on 24 February 1998 and I was responsible for the costs of the scan myself and if I recollect correctly it cost me over £900.00.

I had undergone the Thermal Imaging Test at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital in London on 7^th November 1997. According to the report made by Mr Ernest Cooke the only area giving rise to any concern was an area just above the Right knee to a point just below the knee. It was obviously the presence of the bony lesion giving to the rise in temperature seen in the Thermal imaging.

I had asked Mr Ernest Cooke’s secretary on several occasions to ask Mr Cooke explain to me his findings from the Thermal Imaging but he refused, and allegedly he eventually went off work ill so I could not see him. Another stitch-up by the medics in their back-covering culture?

The bony lesion as seen in x-rays of my Right knee in 1991 and onward was eventually removed from my Right knee in November 2002 by Mr Bickerstaff at the Thornbury Hospital in Sheffield, which was paid for by the NHS, after the intervention of the Rt. Hon Mr Kevin J Barron MP, our Local MP.

The next escapade with Mr John King was when I had attended the appointment made to see him in his Clinic on 21^st May 1998 at the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel. He didn’t turn up for the appointment, and I could not for the life of me think why not.

Because it had been a special appointment to see Mr King himself I refused to see anyone else and I was eventually reimbursed for my travelling expenses. See copy of my letter dated 26^th May 1998 to Chief Executive Mr Ray Petts.

A further appointment was made for me to see Mr King on 28^th May 1998 and this time he did turn up. See copy of my letter to Mr King dated 29^th May 1998. He was not the same man we saw at the first consultation; he was quite arrogant in his tone and advised me that he was referring me back to my GP. As my husband and I were leaving Mr King sarcastically said; “it’s no good Mrs Barnes, you will have to learn to walk on your hands”!  Meaning before anyone would offer me treatment. I will not reiterate here what can be found by reading the copy letters below.

I was at that time pursuing a case against Mr Charles Gillott the Solicitor at the firm of Irwin Mitchell solicitors in Sheffield, for an alleged mishandling of my original claim against Mr Majumdar, the orthopaedic surgeon who had removed the patella (knee cap) from my Right knee in August 1987 and left me crippled.

It was becoming obvious that it was actually the result of Majumdar leaving the bony lesion in my knee during the operation he performed on my knee in August 1987 that had ultimately resulted in my ongoing disability. Unfortunately, I had also discovered after the event that Mr Majumdar did medico-legal reports for Irwin Mitchell Solicitors and I allege that Mr Gillott should have refused to take on my case against Majumdar due to an obvious conflict of interests.

It just so happened that I had lodged a complaint with the Law Society, and solicitor Nigel Anderson (also a Deputy Coroner) had been instructed by the Law Society as the Panellist Solicitor to investigate Irwin Mitchell solicitors regarding my case.

Apparently, Mr Anderson knowing Mr King was now treating my knee problem had written to Mr King asking him the way forward with my knee treatment. We did not consider this to have been a wise move on Mr Anderson’s part because Mr King was treating me and it was obvious from past experiences that in Mr Anderson so-doing would cause an adverse reaction from Mr King, and as it turned out this was the case in my case here.   See copy of letter dated 1^st April 1998 from Mr Anderson to Mr King at the Independent Hospital in London. I reckon they were making a fool out of me yet again by preventing me obtaining treatment from Mr King, and it had obviously worked!!

I am also copying again here for ease of reference a copy extract taken from Nigel Andersons report to the OSS dated 10 November 1998 where on the second page he refers to doctors who have seen Mrs Banes not being interested in treating her and being found to have been hostile towards her when they became aware of a claim being made against a colleague of theirs.

This true story continues …….

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7^th October 2013 [Blog No. 36]

Hello again, it’s me, Peggy

It was only yesterday (6/10/2013) that I blogged on the Health Service Ombudsman situation but I thought you might like to see what I’ve put to Mr Kevin Barron MP (our Local MP) on what has happened with mine and also my husband’s complaints with the Health Service Ombudsman and how the Ombudsman’s Office make attempts a lessening any complaint brought against our NHS by a member of the public.

Ombudsman Dame Julie Mellor says there is only one in ten cases that get investigated, and there is no wonder when her Office segregates complaints to lessen the strength of complainant’s complaints.

See copied below a copy of my faxed letter of today’s date to Mr Barron MP at the House of Commons, together with the attachments. You should find it self-explicit.

When I changed from the Kiveton Park Medical Practice (now KPPCC) to the Chantry Bridge Medical Centre in Rotherham in November/December 2010 the KPPCC sent my medical records onto my new GP practice without having amended my medical records in accordance with the Information Commissioner’s advice back in 2002/03. The records still recorded litigation issues/court case etc, and I allege that this action was done willfully with intent to continue jeopardising my attempts at obtaining proper corrective treatment for my on-going Right foot problem!    

This true story continues …….

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6^th October 2013 [Blog No. 35]

Hello again, it’s me, Peggy

I reiterate here what I said in my last blog and that was that we appear to be just going around in circles, albeit Mr Barron MP did make a comment to me about the contents of one of the Ombudsman’s letters being a trick.

The complaint I’d lodged with Mr Lea Hedges at the Ombudsman’s Office in October 2011 was about the Kiveton Park Primary Care Centre referring to litigation/court case etc in letters of referral to consultants to prevent me obtaining treatment, and the Information Commissioner having advised them to remove those comments from my medical records in 2002/03 and them not doing it until 2011. This prevented me from obtaining proper corrective medical treatment for my on-going disability with my Right foot problem.

Why should the Health Service Ombudsman want to stoop so low as to want to trick people, especially when Health Service Ombudsman Dame Julie Mellor preached in the Daily Telegraph about them now having transparency in their dealings and it being the way forward?

Mr Hedges had come back to me in July 2012 suggesting that I should give the KPPCC the opportunity to settle my complaint financially and then return to him if I were not satisfied with their response. Mr Barron MP had recommended that I write the KPPCC via Mr Ian Hale of French & Company solicitors to ensure the letter would be worded correctly. The KPPCC eventually simply acknowledged Mr Hale’s letter and did bugger-all regarding offering me any settlement, so I referred the matter back to Mr Hedges just as Mr Hedges had suggested I should do.

In October/November 2011 the complaint against the KPPCC had been given complaint reference number EN-118242 and Mr Hedges at the Ombudsman’s Office had spoken to the KPPCC on the telephone in September 2012 under this very same reference number showing the complaint was LIVE and that he was still investigating my complaint at that time, albeit he did not have any authority from me to allow him contact the KPPCC. This was a clear breach of the Data Protection 1998 Act if ever I saw one. In any event Mr Hedges says in his letter to Mr Barron MP that if he or I have any queries we were to let him know. See copy of Mr Lea Hedges’ letter dated 26 September 2012 under complaint reference number EN-118242 copied below.

See copied below a copy of my letter dated 24^th November 2012 as handed to Mr Barron MP at our meeting with him on that date. I will not reiterate what I put in my letter to Mr Barron MP because I believe on you reading the letter you should find it self-explicit.

As I've said earlier, my husband also had cause to complain to the Health Service Ombudsman about the extremely poor treatment that he has received at the hands of the Rotherham DGH NHS Trust. He had completed and submitted the complaint form via the internet to the Health Service Ombudsman.

They reverted to him with two complaint forms both forms rightly engrossed with one reference number that of EN-170792, and this was because the two complains were against the one healthcare provider. He completed the forms and marked them as EN-170792 Parts 1&2 to distinguish there being two separate departments at the hospital involved in the one complaint against the RDGH offering him a poor healthcare service.

The ombudsman came back at him in a letter dated 20^th September 2013 thanking him for completing the forms which they had received on 16 September 2013. As you can see for yourselves they went onto say in their letter (see copy of letter below) that they had allocated the complaint with two separate complaint reference numbers.

My husband was furious because the Health Service Ombudsman was now doing to him what the Ombudsman had done to me; they were splitting the complaint into two separate complaint reference numbers, we allege to lessen the strength of the complaint. Thereby allowing the Ombudsman to cover the medics’ backs for them at the RDGH offering a poor service overall. My Husband emailed the Ombudsman’s Customer Service Officer on 25 September 2013 complaining about what they had done. See copies of his email and the Ombudsman’s response email on 3/10/2013 copied below where the Ombudsman confirms that splitting the complaint into two separate complaints had been wrong.

Now; if the Health Service Ombudsman can confirm to my husband in writing that by them splitting his complaint against the RDGH into two separate complaints was wrong, then that proves beyond a shadow of doubt that the Health Service Ombudsman issuing my one complaint against the Kiveton Primary Care Centre with two separate complaint reference numbers was ALSO WRONG!

It would appear from my not receiving any communication from Mr Barron MP since 22 August 2013 that Mr Barron himself has not received any communication from the Health Service Ombudsman regarding my complaint. I will be putting this new evidence [about the Ombudsman’s recent response to my husband regarding his case] to Mr Barron early-on this week, so let us see what he has to say about it? The Health Service Ombudsman’s Office cannot be trusted!

In my next blog I intend getting back onto my treatment/non treatment by our NHS, and I allege that the only treatment I do get nowadays makes me ill.

Recently, I agreed with a doctor [because from what he had said I trusted him] to re-try a particular medication. The doctor removed all my recorded allergies from my medical records to allow him prescribe the medication him knowing it had previous made me very ill.

I had to refrain from taking the prescribed medication after a matter of days because it made me extremely ill. I was so ill that my husband feared he might have to take me to the RDGH finishing school. I still have not fully recovered from the side-effects of that medication. I can no-longer trust our NHS!

I did put this to Mr Barron MP at a subsequent meeting with him in July of this year.

This true story continues …….

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22 September 2013 [Blog No. 34]

Hello again, it’s me, Peggy

I’m still going on here in my blog today about the Heath Service Ombudsman trying to get away from Mr Barron MP’s request for clear answers to his letters to them regarding my complaint. You can see from the copy of Mr Barron’s letter dated 24 June 2013 as copied below that they are clearly stone-walling him, and still are to this very day because he is still waiting for a response to his letter dated 22^nd August, as mentioned in my previous blog. Mr Barron does state in his letter copied below that, and I quote; “………. and both she and I are unhappy with your current stance which we believe is preventing her from receiving justice”.

We appear to be just going around in circles, albeit Mr Barron MP did make a comment to me about the contents of one of the Ombudsman’s letters being a trick. On another occasion Mr Barron told me that he believed the Ombudsman's office had got their backs up against the wall by the way its been handled over the past two years.  They also give one case two case reference numbers, and I allege that by them doing this it’s just another trick in which to allow them separate vital evidence from their investigations.

In any event why should the Health Service Ombudsman want to stoop so low as to want to trick people, especially when Health Service Ombudsman Dame Julie Mellor preaches in the Daily Telegraph about them now having transparency in their dealings and it being the way forward? What a hypocrite?  

My husband had cause to complain himself to the Health Service Ombudsman again quite recently, about the extremely poor treatment that he has received at the hands of the Rotherham DGH NHS Trust.

The Health Service Ombudsman declined to Review his case brought against the RDGH NHS Trust regarding him being prescribed Lipitor when the consultant had been clearly advised by me (in a sound recorded consultation) that he was intolerant to Statins, and that Statins made him very ill.

After him taking Lipitor for 3-weeks his GP at the Kiveton Park Primary Care Centre advised him, due to him being very ill, to stop taking the Lipitor and he was subsequently diagnosed by a GP at the same practice as having suffered a stroke. However, this also shows how we've been maltreated by medics because the GP failed to send for a blue-light response. He stopped him driving forthwith and just made routine appointments for him to have blood tests done at the Practice (two days hence) and made a routine appointment for him to have a CT Scan done at the RDGH which did not take place until days after the event. When Mr Barron MP saw my husband a couple of days or so after him seeing the GP, Mr Barron thought he was dying because he looked so ill.

A further complaint was also not upheld by the Ombudsman where he had complained about him discovering in his medical records, held at the RDGH, where a consultant had referred to him as; “Fortunately this man is still around to tell the tale”. And, the consultant had further referred to my husband in the same letter as “it” by saying; “it is still fit enough for repair”.

The Ombudsman had asked him to wait while his further two complaints had progressed through the RDGH complaints procedure, which he did. The Ombudsman then sent him two separate Complaint Forms to fill in due to, they said, it being about two separate issues. He completed two separate forms as requested which had the same Case Reference number written on them by the Ombudsman’s Office. He marked the Forms as Part 1 and Part 2 of the same complaint. By the two complaints being linked together it showed that the RDGH were discriminating against him treatment wise, for him daring to complain.

He’s just received two separate letters back from the Ombudsman’s Office advising him that they are now treating his complaint as two separate complaints and they have given them two separate case reference numbers. The case numbers (as you can see from the letters copied here) are polls apart and show clearly that the Health Service Ombudsman is currently receiving thousands of complaints from the public. It shows there are 2,590 cases just between my husband’s two case numbers alone. Apart from that, can you imagine the extra costs of the silly beggars investigating the two complain separately. That alone tells me it’s a scam?

I’d have cause to lodge a formal complaint in year 2001 against Dr Tooth, at what was then called the Kiveton Park Medical Practice. You can see for yourself from their letter of response dated July 24^th 2001 (copied below) that all four GPs (Dr D Say, Dr J Reid, Dr N Thorman and Dr H Speight) had signed off the letter and in paragraph four they said, and I quote; “A final concern to us is how you intend to receive GP services hereafter”.

You will recall from a previous blog that when accessing my medical records at that GP Practice in 2002 I discovered “Litigation Issues” and reference to “Court Case” reported in my notes and in letters of referral to Consultants, and this been the reason for my not being able to obtain proper corrective treatment from our NHS for my on-going knee and foot problems. Even after the ICO’s intervention in 2002/03 the KPPCC had failed to remove the offensive and unwarranted wording from my medical records held at their group practice. This matter was not addressed by the Kiveton Park Primary Care Centre (KPPCC) until around April 2011 after further intervention by the Chief Executive (Andy Buck) at Rotherham Primary Care Trust.

In a review of my medication one GP at the KPPCC had said he intended reducing the dose of one of my prescribed medication from 40mgs to 20mgs. However, after I obtained the new prescription from the chemist I fortunately noticed that he had actually increased the intended dose of 20mgs by 4x the amount, to 80mgs. Was he trying to kill me by any chance???

I allege that what they have done, however, is for the aforementioned signatories of the GP letter of 24 July 2001 is to kill any chance of my obtaining proper corrective treatment for my Right foot problem, even to this very day!!

My husband and I had had concerns about Dr Tooth when at one point in a consultation I’d asked him, at a time when I was seeking treatment from him, where the Hippocratic Oath was in all of this, and he retorted with; “Oh that, that was something dreamed-up in the jungle and we don’t go by that anymore”. What more can I say, I think that sums it if beautifully??

Both the GMC and the Health Service Ombudsman have failed to uphold any complaints put to them, and by them so-doing I allege that they have aided and abetted the medics in their adverse/non-treatment of me.

See copy of my letter dated 16^th August 2001 to Mr Barron MP where I put my concerns to him about the attitude of the aforesaid doctors at the KPPCC.

This true story continues …….

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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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