12^th May 2014 [Blog No. 53]

Hello again, it’s me, Peggy

On Saturday last (10/5/2014) we met with the Rt. Hon Sir Kevin J Barron MP for an update on the PHSO situation. See copy of my letter dated 10 May 2014 to Mr Barron copied below.

Mr Barron said that the Health Service Ombudsman had contacted him about my situation and saying that they had not received any letter from Daniel Poulter MP.

Mr Barron said at our meeting on Saturday last that Mr Poulter MP had sent a letter to him saying he had copied same to the PHSO and he had hoped that the PHSO would look at the matter again but the PHSO had confirmed to Mr Barron that they have not received that letter and had asked Mr Barron to send them a copy and then they would reply. No surprise there then I says.

Mr Barron did say on Saturday that as far as he could recollect he had not yet received any response from the Health Service Ombudsman as yet.

You can see from the copy of my letter as attached here that with my letter to Mr Barron MP I had also enclosed a copy of a CD with the sound recording made of the Defendant Trust’s Medical Expert (Mr Nigel Tubbs, Orthopaedic Surgeon) where Mr Tubbs can be heard confirming that the calcification (bony lesion) could be seen in the Bassetlaw Hospital x-rays dated 19/08/91, and the fact I had put this sound recording on my last blog, blog No. 52 dated 4/5/2014.

A copy of the sound recording made of the meeting with Mr Tubbs was filed and re-played in the Sheffield Court on appeal but when the Defendants solicitor Mikaler Cutts (Browne Jacobson Solicitors of Nottingham) shook her head vigorously the judge decided not to consider the contents therein.

Them at the Bassetlaw Hospital and their instructed solicitors had always fervently denied this fact, and had vigorously lied throughout, in their attempt to cover the backs of the medics.

Another obstacle I found myself facing in year 1999 and 2000 was with solicitors, judges and the courts;

Back in November 1999 Mr Tim Slow of Gosschalks solicitors of Hull had agreed to accept instruction on my case against the Bassetlaw Hospital & Community Services NHS Trust, which had been brought before the Worksop County Court back in 1998 under claim number WS 802466. He wrote to the Legal Aid Board and obtained a full certificate to act on my case.

Mr Slow was in receipt of the full Legal Aid Certificate but instead of him attending and representing me in the appeal hearing in the Lincoln Court on 20/12/1999, under Claim No. WS802466, he simply refused to attend. I had to represent myself in Court where and when His Hon Judge Inglis threw out my case and I had to appeal his decision via the Appeal courts in London on April 6^th 2000. The Judge had said there was a problem with the date of Limitation in my case but said he was not at liberty to say what that was. I was given incorrect information by the court as to which court I should appeal my case, and this had resulted in my having to make further applications to the appeal court in London once I discovered the RCJ in London to be the correct court of appeal.

At a meeting with Mr Slow in late January 2000 he was informed by me of how I had also protected a claim against the Suffolk Health Authority myself, and he agreed to handle that case and to apply for extension of time in which to serve proceedings and apply for Legal Aid cover on it.

Mr Slow had applied to the Worksop County Court on 21/1/00 for an extension to the time in which to serve proceedings. He made the application for the Bassetlaw case under Claim No. WS802466 and the Suffolk Claim under WS901336. He attended a hearing in the Worksop County Court on 11/2/00 where apparently only he and the judge were present.

On 25/2/00 at a court hearing when my husband and I, Mr Slow and Bassetlaw Trust's solicitor were present, District judge Hickinbottom refused to continue until such time he had made it very clear to both mine and also the defendant's solicitor that the Bassetlaw Hospital claim number being extended was that of WS 802466. He said it was being extended to allow the main body of the case to proceed, and both Mr Slow and the Defendant's solicitor agreed with him.

District judge Hickinbottom went ahead on 25/2/2000 and ordered that the request for an extension of time to serve particulars of claim under Worksop County Court Claim No. WS802466 be granted.

However, shortly after that hearing my own solicitor (Tim Slow) wrote the court advising that the wrong claim number had been allocated to the case on that date and the court went ahead and amended the order that had been issues by the court pursuant to Rule 40.12 CPR (known as Slip-Rule 15) to amend the Claim number from WS802446 to WS901318. The Judge did this after he’d had had both solicitors agree with him at the hearing on 24/2/2000 that the claim number being heard was indeed WS802466. Crooked or what???????????

I subsequently appealed the order made by His Hon Judge Inglis on 20/12/99 myself because Mr Slow insisted that he was unable to assist. I therefore went on to appeal the order in the Court of Appeal in London on 06/4/00 without having any legal representation. The case was heard under Claim No WS802466, and I was refused permission to appeal. See copy of the Order made by Lord Justice Mantell copied below.

After the hearing I was met outside the court by a gentleman whom I had seen sat in court, and as it turned out he was Mr Michael Pringshiem, a solicitor, one well known to the Law Society he said. He informed me that I had just been stitched up by the judge. He said he did not have time to discuss the matter at that point but I did eventually meet up with him on the following August Bank Holiday Monday where and when he reviewed all the Court Orders. He advised me that neither the solicitors not the Judiciary had adhered to procedure in my case.

I am also alleging that Mr Slow refusing to represent my case in the appeal courts in

London was done with intention of perverting the course of justice in my case.

It was after informing Mr Slow of the outcome of the appeal hearing in London, and that of my understanding of the hearing in Worksop County Court on 25/2/00, that he wrote advising me that he had applied for the extension of time in which to serve proceedings for the Bassetlaw claim under the wrong claim number. He advised me that he had wrongly used claim WS802466 instead of WS901318. He did not inform me until after the initial 14 days had passed in which time I could have insisted he appeal that particular Order.

However, Mr Slow subsequently went on, five months later, to make a further application to the Worksop County Court under WS802466. He informed the court in his accompanying letter that there were two claims under WS802466 and requested of them that they return the sealed documents for him to serve on the defendants himself.

This true story continues …….

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4^th May 2014 [Blog No. 52]

Hello again, it’s me, Peggy

The sound recording you are about to hear and copied below is an extract taken from the consultation I had with Mr Nigel Tubbs Orthopaedic Surgeon at the Nuffield Hospital in Birmingham on 29 March 2006. Mr Tubbs was the medical expert who had been instructed to make medical reports for the court by Browne Jacobson Solicitors in Nottingham, who were the solicitors instructed by the NHSLA on behalf of the Doncaster and Bassetlaw Hospitals NHS Trust.

You can clearly hear Mr Tubbs confirming (on at least two occasions) that the bony lesion (calcified nodule) can be clearly seen in the 19/08/91 x-rays in any event. Now, this was exactly what the Bassetlaw Hospital was and had been fervently denying through-out all of the court hearings. They even went as far as to lie about it.

Even Professor Galasko, the so-called medical expert who had been controversially instructed against my will by Mr Brain of Mills Kemp & Brown Solicitors in Barnsley did his level best to jeopardise my case. Galasko, you will recollect from my previous blogs, made a report for the court on the administration of Guanethidine Pain-Block injections when clearly he was not qualified in that area of medical expertise and should have refused to take the instruction.

I had attended the Bassetlaw Hospital Radiology Department on 19 August 1991 to have x-rays taken of both my left and Right knees for comparison due to previous surgery, that being the removal of my Right patella on 15/8/1987.

Upon my attending the Radiology Department they had taken 3 x-rays. One x-ray plate was of both my knees together (AP View) and then two single plates showing my left knee and my Right knee separately (LAT View x-rays). They’d asked me to wait in the waiting area, as they do, to wait and see if the x-rays had processed properly.

A few minutes later I was re-called to have another x-ray taken (another LAT View) of my Right knee. I’ve since discovered that if a radiographer can see that something in the knee had not clearly shown up they use a different exposure rate when taking a further x-ray. This 2^nd LAT View x-ray became known as the “4” x-ray of 19/08/91.

Over the ongoing weeks I’d contacted my GP several times but she’d denied having received any results from the Bassetlaw Hospital. When I eventually saw her she read the report to herself and simply said that there was nothing untoward and therefore nothing further that they could do other than prescribe pain-killers.

In the December of 1991 I’d seen a Locum GP, where and when he’d read-out the report relating to my Right knee x-ray. He had commented on my Right knee x-ray report reporting on the x-ray showing one or more loose bodies in the medial aspect of my knee. He said; “Strictly off the Record”, that there was something that could be done for my knee problem. I put this to my then solicitors at Irwin Mitchell Solicitors but I will come back to talking about them later.

It was July 1993 before I first set eyes on the 4^th LAT View x-ray. It was at the Dukeries Clinic in Worksop but Orthopaedic Surgeon Mr Verinder made no mention of the image of the bony lesion that could be seen in what I now know to be the medial aspect of my Right knee in the x-ray that he’d had on his illuminated panel. He diagnosed me (I allege incorrectly and willfully) as suffering from the controversial diagnosis RSD.

It was 5^th November 1996 when I’d seen a Mr Zeraati at the Bassetlaw Hospital after having a fall in Cleethorpes on 16/7/1996, and where those at the Grimsby Hospital had taken x-rays of my Right knee before referring me back to the Bassetlaw Hospital, where I had further x-rays done on 19/7/1996. When I walked into his consulting room on 5/11/1996 Mr Zeraati had already put a July 1996 LAT View x-ray of my Right knee on his illuminated display panel. He said; “Are you aware that you have a foreign body in your Right knee Mrs Barnes”.

He identified the image in the x-ray which I had seen previously on the medial aspect of my Right knee in the 1991 x-ray, when in Verinder’s office in 1993. Mr Zeraati selected another LAT View x-ray of my Right knee from the file on his desktop, he’d put it on the illuminated display panel and at the same time saying “it was there in 1991 look”. Both I and my husband told him that we’d seen that very same x-ray in 1993 when in Verinder’s Office but Mr Verinder had not considered or advised me of the image of the foreign body (bony lesion) that could be clearly seen on the medial aspect of my Right knee in that 19/08/1991 Bassetlaw Hospital x-ray.

I’d subsequently made an application to the Bassetlaw Hospital via Kate Patterson Solicitors for copies of my x-rays but they failed to send that specific 19/8/1991 LAT View x-ray.

My husband had attended the Bassetlaw Hospital on 3/12/1997 where he identified that specific x-ray (and the bony lesion seen on the medial aspect of my Right knee in that film) to Pat Hewitt, the then Medical Records Clerk and Mrs Carol Perry, the then Grade 2 Radiographer. They told him that they were unable to copy the film while he waited because the x-ray copying machine had just broken down. A likely story, what!!

When he returned the next day (after receiving a telephone call from the hospital) they denied that the Right knee LAT View x-ray (which he had identified to the two hospital staff just the previous day and dated 19/08/1991) had ever existed. They lied!!

The then Medical Records Manager, Mr Kieran Colton, had been called to the interview, where he told my husband that he was not saying it had not existed but that it was up to my husband to prove that it had.

The x-ray report for the 19/08/1991 x-rays was obtained from the Bassetlaw Hospital and the one or more loose bodies as mentioned been seen on the medial aspect of my knee had been reported as been in my left knee as opposed to my Right knee. I alleged that the report for the x-ray of my left knee was actually the report for my Right knee. It was also noted that the report for my Right knee made no mention of the absence of the patella which had been removed from my Right knee in 1987, and this was a significant factor because the x-ray Request Form dated 16/8/1991 requested x-rays of both knees for comparison due to previous surgery.

I forwarded the Report onto a Mr Iain Bourne (Health-Sector) at the Information Commissioner’s office. In a letter copied to me he wrote that he believed if only from the semantics of the report he believed Mrs Barnes had a case.

Mr Zeraati (Orthopaedic Surgeon) was asked by me to confirm that he had indeed identified that specific 19/08/1991 LAT View x-ray and the image of the bony lesion seen in that film when we had attended his consulting rooms at the Bassetlaw Hospital on 5^th November 1996 but he said for him to confirm that would be more than his job was worth.

You have just heard for yourself in the sound recording (and there is no getting away from it) where Medical Expert Mr Tubbs confirmed that the calcified nodule (bony lesion) is/was to be seen in the 19 August 1991 Bassetlaw x-rays, which shows beyond a shadow of doubt that I have been well and truly stitched-up by the Bassetlaw hospital, their solicitors and their instructed medical expert because apart from anything else Mr Nigel Tubbs went on to make a report for the court without reporting on these facts.

On 9^th June 1998, Dr Howard (Radiologist) at the Bassetlaw Hospital and when at the meeting at Bassetlaw Hospital Barrowby House HQ, advised all present on my case that “Medial” meant inside the knee joint (when in fact when referring to the knee medial means “the side of the knee nearest the other knee”) and that the calcified nodule (bony lesion) was not to be seen in the 19/08/1991 x-rays because it had grown there, in my knee, since the films of 1991. She lied!!!!

This true story continues …….

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20^th April 2014 [Blog No. 51]

Hello again, it’s me, Peggy

As I said in my last Blog; during this Easter break and for those who have just started reading my blogs I intended 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 and solicitors alike. Whilst I now see that to be a mammoth task due to the volume, I am attempting to do some of it here now.

In August 1987 at the age of 44-years, Mr Majumdar (Orthopaedic Surgeon at the Parkfield Private Hospital in Rotherham) removed my Right knee-cap (Patella) due to, he said in his report, it being found to be Bi-Partite (in two pieces).

I had suffered recurrent dislocation of the patella in both my left and right knees after being knocked off my bicycle by two Great Dane dogs at the age of twelve.

My left knee problem had been the more serious of the two but it had been corrected at the age of 15-years by surgeons Dornan and Hertzog at the Rivelin Valley Hospital in Sheffield.

They had obviously performed the operation professionally because after the operation (bone and tendon transplant/transfer) and a stay in that hospital for about 6-months, my left knee became problem free. Whereas; after Pratif Majumdar had removed my Right knee cap in 1987 my problems created then (I allege by him experimenting in “Patella” removals and tendon bunching at that time) he actually created the problems I’ve been left with now. That, together with my pursuing a claim for Medical Negligence against Mr Majumdar in 1989, I allege has prevented me from subsequently obtaining any corrective treatment from our NHS or even the private sector.

Just for reference purposes, I had no intention of taking any legal action against anyone back in 1989, it was only due to Mr Majumdar swearing and using the “F” word to me and my husband in December 1988 at the Rotherham District General Hospital after my return from the Evelyn Private Hospital in Cambridge where he himself had referred me to Professor Dandy, a friend of his, for a second opinion. Ms Heather O’Donnell (the then Chief Administrator at the RDGH) told my husband to obtain the services of a solicitor, someone like Irwin Mitchell Solicitors, and she would not stand in our way of any claim against the hospital for what Mr Majumdar had done and said.

My taking the aforementioned lady at her word turned out to be the worst thing I’ve ever done. It turned out that Mr Madjumdar at that time was regularly instructed by Irwin Mitchell Solicitors as a medical expert in clinical negligence cases being pursued against others, and therefore Irwin Mitchell (I now understand) should not have accepted to take my case on due to a conflict of interest.

The case became fraught with problems and I wanted to transfer my case to another firm of solicitors. However, I was eventually fobbed-off by being paid a paltry sum to go away. The case had been funded by Legal Aid but when I wanted to transfer my case onto another firm of solicitors Charles Gillott (the instructed solicitor at Irwin Mitchell solicitors) said they would require me to pay them around £24K (their costs to-date) before I would be able to transfer my case. I now know that this would not have been the case and Charles Gillott had misled me.

When I attempted to bring a case against Mr Gillott Mr Gillott told me to go ahead and that I would not be able to obtain Legal Aid to bring a case against him. He was correct in that the firm I instructed and who’s solicitor I saw, at first did say that I had a case against Mr Gillott but once the details were put before the Partners of the firm, went on to scupper me from obtaining Legal Aid. I am in possession of all Mr Gillott’s files on my case, and you will not believe some of the things he had done and said.

In my first Blog of 9/1/2013, you will see that I did refer briefly to the way I had been mal-treated by several medics, solicitors and the courts and also to an extract from a report by Nigel Anderson, solicitor and Deputy Coroner, where he stated in the 5th paragraph of his report dated 10 November 1998:

"It is obvious to me that a number of doctors that have seen Mrs Barnes have shown no interest in her problem or have been generally hostile to her as soon as they found out that there has been a claim against a colleague of theirs". In the 5th paragraph he goes onto say, and I quote; "... I have never seen such hostility before as is contained in some of the correspondence from the medical profession. By that I am judging their hostility by the contents of the letters that they have sent to each other and the problem that Mrs Barnes has clearly had getting straight answers from them. Therein lies the problem".

In the court hearing in the Appeal Court in London, in April 2000, Lord Justice Mantell did actually say to my husband that he (Mantell) was there to “save NHS money”, now, surely he was there residing over my case on 6/4/2000 to oversee justice done, and not to simply save NHS money?

However, I think that LJ Mantell summed-up exactly what all the judges have done in my cases over the years; they had simply overturned my claims to save NHS money! One judge (HHJ Moore) in 2005 told the solicitor acting for the Defendant NHS Trust to settle my case and while still in the court hearing he gave us all our files back. The Defendant Trust’s solicitors (Browne Jacobson Solicitors of Nottingham) simply acknowledged receipt of the Part 36 Offer to settle (which had been drawn-up with the aid of our Local MP (the now Sir Kevin J Barron MP) and when we returned to court HHJ Moore said he had changed his mind and dismissed my case and refused me permission to appeal.

You will also see that in my first blog I have alleged that instructed solicitor Mr Jonathan Brain of Mills Kemp & Brown Solicitors in Barnsley conspired with the solicitor at the Legal Services Commission (Ms Carolyn Smiley) to prevent my Legal Aid Certificate information reaching me by having my mail transferred from my home address to C/o Mills Kemp & Brown solicitors. If I had not attended the office of MKB to inspect my case files due to being dissatisfied with Mr Brain I would never have known about this dirty deed. Tampering with my mail delivery in this way surely had/has to be a criminal offence?

There is further information to be found in my blog of 9/1/2013.

In Blog of 11/1/2013 I referred to the telephone conversation where the NHSLA threatened to pursue me for costs if I did not refrain from continuing my clinical negligence claims against the NHS.

I also referred to the Legal Services Commission at Red Lion Street, London where Ms Smiley had worked as a solicitor and Red Lion Street Department having been shut-down, and Ms Smiley having acquired a job as a solicitor with the NHSLA. Now, I don’t know about you but I don’t believe in coincidences do you? I allege that she did such a good job for the NHSLA in shutting cases down while working for the LSC that they gave her a job when that department closed.

I also referred to Mr Brain of MKB solicitors conspiring in 2002 to only deal with Beachcroft Wansbroughs solicitors during my case, who had been a firm of solicitors acting on behalf of Bassetlaw Hospital & Community Services NHS Trust in a previous claim and who had at that time lost their contract with the NHSLA for doing NHS clinical Negligence claims in any event.

You can see from my blog of 11/1/2013 that I also referred to Mr Andy Buck, Chief Executive, Rotherham Primary Care Trust confirming in his letter to Mr Barron MP that the Kiveton Park Primary Care Centre (KPPCC) did not adhere to the ICO’s advice back in 2002/03 in that they did not amend my medical records in accordance to the ICO’s instructions and remove reference to litigation/court case etc from my medical records and in letters of referral. This has continually denied me obtaining proper corrective treatment for my ongoing knee and foot problems.

In blog dated 17/1/2013 you will see that I have made reference to my having four x-rays taken at the Bassetlaw Hospital on 19/08/91 and only being provide with copies of three of them even after being shown the forth x-ray (a LAT View x-ray of my Right knee) by Mr Zeraati at the consultation at the Bassetlaw Hospital on 5/11/1996. Where and when he considered that x-ray and the bony lesion (foreign body he called it) seen in that film and that it was present and to be seen in my Right knee back as far as 1991.

In Blog of 20/1/2013 I made reference to evidence showing how I’ve been discriminated against by consultants once they became aware of litigation against one of their colleagues by GPs referring to litigation etc in letters of referral.

My then GP Dr Geta Haldar at the Woodsetts GP Practice Nr Worksop, reported in my Lloyd George Record Card for 6/7/90; Elson won’t take it on – Hunter - he says “NO THANKS!!

Now, I think this shows exactly the type of discrimination I was up against and still am up against to this very day!

I also referred to how Radiologist Dr Howard tried to confuse everyone who attended the meeting at the Bassetlaw Hospital HQ on 9 June 1998 by referring to the word “medial” as mentioned in x-ray reports meaning the middle of my knee joint, when “medial”, when referring to the knee, means the side of the knee nearest to the other knee. I allege she did this with the clear intention to mislead and the clinical negligence solicitors attending that meeting (Ms Kieran Bhogal of Beachcroft Wansbroughs solicitors and Mr Stephen Williams of Jackson Quinn solicitors in Worksop) would have been clearly aware of this fact. When the meeting was over solicitor Mr Stephen Williams did say to me and my husband that they were lying through their teeth. I have a word that describes Dr Howard but best not disclose it here eh?

The so-called Medical Expert Professor Galasko would have also been aware of Dr Howard’s obvious intention to mislead but he wilfully failed to expose this to the court in his reports, as a fact. Galasko was the expert instructed by Mr Brain of MKB solicitors against my instructions, which was due to Galasko having a conflict of interests due to being a friend and colleague of Professor Dandy, a consultant surgeon being criticised in my clinical care.

In Blog dated 20/1/2013 I posted images of x-rays and x-ray reports to enable you understand the situation I found myself in with solicitors and medics alike. There is also an image of the bony lesion itself (around 2cms in size) as removed from my Right knee in a simple operation performed on my Right knee by Mr Bickerstaff at the Thornbury Hospital in Sheffield. When I attempted to use notes from the Thornbury Hospital they alleged that I had left their hospital on 22/11/2002 without having been discharged. I certainly did not and this was just an attempt by the Thornbury Hospital to discredit me and to distance them from any claim, if anything untoward was to happen after the operation, them knowing of the past litigation issues. What a sorry lot they all are?

I intend continuing recapping my blogs over the near future, whilst I am digging-out my old case files relating to the OSS (now SRA) and Ombudsman’s complaint files dating back to 1999. You will see from the old case files that neither the OSS (now SRA) and the Ombudsman have not changed, and I can prove it. We tend to go to these quangos expecting them to work in the interests of the public but they do not, instead they work in the interests of the medics and the solicitors.      

This true story continues …….

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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!!

This true story continues …….

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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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