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- NHS Horror 7/1/06 - 11/1/06
- NHS Trauma 7/1/06 - 16/10/09
- Christine Beasley, CNO, Apology
- Letter from Sir Andrew Cash OBE
- Our Reply to Andrew Cash 22/9/09
- Another Letter to Sir Andrew 26/10/09
- UKIP-MEP Letter to NHS Sheffield
- Medication Details - Factual
- Palliative Care Needs Common Sense
- Palliative Care New Technique
- NHS End of Life Poor Care
- Medical Standards in NHS Care
- NHS STH Mistakes/Failings
- NHS Errors, Blunders and Cover Ups
- NHS Mistakes - No Immunity for Celebrities
- NHS Complaints Procedure
- NHS Whistleblowers
- NHS Facts and Figures
- NHS - Recommended Books
- Tom in the Press/Media
- OUR ADVICE TO YOU
- Patients Association NHS Facts
- End of Life Care
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Thomas Milner's Palliative Care Experience!
Welcome to TomsAnguish which is a dedicated website to our beloved husband, father and grandfather who had been diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukemia 6 months prior to ending up firstly on the A. & E. Ward at the Northern General Hospital, Sheffield - 7/1/06 to then dying in less than peaceful circumstances on the Palliative Care ward at the Northern General Hospital, Sheffield - 11/1/06 :-Thomas Milner's NHS Palliative/End of Life Care Less experience was briefly outlined - Case No. 6 - in the Patients Association Report 27/8/09.
http://www.patients-association.com/DBIMGS/file/Patients%20not%20numbers,%20people%20not%20statistics(1).pdf
Within this Tomsanguish website, Thomas Milner's NHS Palliative/End of Life Lack of Care experience at the Northern General Hospital, Sheffield will be
A month after Thomas died, 16/2/06, the NHS Palliative Care Unit at the Sheffield Northern General Hospital wrote:
'WE WILL BE ABLE TO REFLECT ON YOUR FATHER'S CASE AND HOPEFULLY IMPROVE OUR SERVICE IN THE FUTURE!!! But they failed to answer our concerns about the pain control that was and was NOT administered. We are still waiting!!!
24/11/09 Missing Documents, Lost or Shredded?
We have now requested copies of supposed documents upon which the Hospital has based it's correspondence to us (some of these erroneous NHS Sheffield letters are listed below here). These documents have NOT been supplied. Our email of request can be seen to the right under ARTICLES - Documents Requested
5/11/09 Again Still Waiting!
Sir Andrew Cash OBE, Chief Executive, Sheffield NHS Hospital Trust (sth), has sent ANOTHER INCORRECT letter 30/9/09 to us this time! He now says that he cannot answer any of our questions as the matter is with the HEALTHCARE OMBUDSMAN! Where is Sir Andrew getting his information? The matter is NOT with the Healthcare Ombudsman, so come on Sir Andrew let's have some answers!
We have sent ANOTHER letter to Sir Andrew Cash OBE which can be seen to the left under CASE POINTS 'Another Letter to Sir Andrew' asking for some simple answers to some simple questions!!!.
26/10/09 Still Waiting!
1.Sir Andrew Cash OBE, Chief Executive, Sheffield NHS Teaching Hospital Trust (sth), has still NOT apologised for his ERRONEOUS letter - See CASE POINTS 'Letter from Sir Andrew Cash OBE'. This letter was sent to David Willetts M.P. WHAT ARE THEY TRYING TO COVER UP?
2.The office of our UKIP-MEP Nigel Farage has still NOT RECEIVED a reply to their letter - See CASE POINTS 'UKIP-MEP Letter to NHS'. Three simple questions were asked about care and medication!
3.The Leeds based NHS 'Medical Expert' who invoiced us £2165.83 for her ERRONEOUS Medical Report, has NOT contacted us although we have tried to contact her. Our UKIP-MEP says she must sue for payment or concede that her writings were INCORRECT. HER SILENCE SEEMS TO DENOTE THE LATTER.
8/10/09 The Marie Curie Palliative Care Institute Liverpool has kindly contacted us:
'We believe a good death in our society should be the norm not the exception. I realise that your experience is of a bad death and that there are no words or actions that can change your situation, however your views on the LCP and how we can strive to enable care in the last hours and days of life to be of a high standard for all, would be much appreciated'.
21/9/09 We receive, belatedly, a letter written by Sir Andrew Cash OBE to our M.P. David Willetts:
See 'CASE POINTS' - 'Letter from Sir Andrew Cash OBE ', for the Sheffield NHS Teaching Hospital Trust's latest mistake.
Sir Andrew get's 'confused' and makes a 'gaffe' regarding Tom's Palliative Care Pain Control and End of Life Medication!
WE KNOW WHEN AND WHAT PAIN RELIEF WAS GIVEN, WE HAVE THE MEDICAL NOTES!
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A debate into Palliative Care and End of Life Care has now been opened with the publication of the Patients Association Report 27/8/09. Click here to read Report: http://www.patients-association.com/DBIMGS/file/Patients%20not%20numbers,%20people%20not%20statistics(1).pdf
Some eminent NHS Professors and Doctors have 'stuck their heads above the parapet' by saying in the Daily Telegraph - 3/9/09 -'NHS Palliative Care/End of Life Care and Palliative Care medicine is in crisis'. Click here to read Telegraph article:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/6127514/Sentenced-to-death-on-the-NHS.html
However the BBC reported in May 2005 that Sheffield University research had found that the 'Elderly are being denied a dignified death on NHS Palliative Care Wards'. Click here to read BBC article:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4575641.stm
17/10/09, Daily Telegraph - Liverpool Care Pathway (LCP) developers at the Marie Curie Centre defend this method for care in the treatment of the dying patient. They said it is not the LCP that is at fault BUT the Medical Staff who need mandatory training! On the same day, the Government Cancer Tsar steps to the fore saying training of medical staff working on NHS Palliative Care and End of Life Care wards should have mandatory training! Was this just to try to make the NHS/Government look as though they are doing something about the Crisis and Chaos in Palliative Care and End of Life Care?
We thing the whole of NHS strategy is in Crisis and Chaos not just Palliative Care and End of Life Care.
The NHS is the 'National Health Secrets' service, being manned by a plethora of managers and administrators who spend NHS time and NHS expenditure dreaming up efficient sounding titles for themselves. These NHS employees waste time and money to come up with 'new NHS iniatives' and think up 'new NHS healthcare strategies and programmes' that justify their newly created jobs!
At the same time they spend NHS time and NHS expenditure discussing how to cut costs in providing drugs or treatment to the ill or dying.
Blacklisted, suspended or damned if you dare raise your head above the parapet.
Corruption, lies and deceit await, if like us, you dare to complain about a service that is being paid for by me, you and the rest of the UK public.
Regarding Tom's Sheffield Palliative Care LESS experience, 4/9/09 Ms. Christine Beasley, the Chief Nursing Officer and Government spokesperson for the Department of Health, wrote to us saying 'I am sorry that your father did not receive an appropriate level of care at Sheffield's Northern General Hospital'.
At the same time Ms. Hilary Scholefield, Chief Nurse at the Sheffield Teaching Hospital Trust was saying to the press regarding the Palliative Care/End of Life strategy afforded to Tom 'care was appropriate'.
They are not singing from the same hymn sheet. They must be suffering from confusion.
Farce! The NHS should carry a Health Warning. It's got a Medical Condition. It's Elderly. It's got a Terminal Illness.
God Help us All and Shame on Them!
THE PATIENTS ASSOCIATION AND THE OFFICE OF OUR UKIP-MEP NIGEL FARAGE HAVE HELPED US WITH THIS NHS COMPLAINT AND CONTINUE TO OFFER SUPPORT OVER THIS NHS SCANDAL. THANKS SO MUCH TO THEM.
Selected Items
| Christine Beasley CNO Apologises Christine Beasley, Chief Nursing Officer contacted the family of Thomas Milner 4/9/09 to apologise for the inappropriate care given to Thomas at the N......more info>>> | |
| Letter from Sir Andrew Cash OBE Letter from Sir Andrew Cash OBE can be seen more clearly by clicking onto the 'file attachment' at bottom of page. SIR ANDREW CASH OBE, Chief Exec......more info>>> | |
| Poor NHS Standards Cause Suffering Poor NHS standards of basic care caused suffering to the patients listed in the Patients Association Report. Thomas Milner, Case No. 6 was left lyi......more info>>> | |
| NHS and Government Contacted 10/7/09 This letter was sent to Gordon Brown M.P., Dept. of Health lots of M.P.'s, other interested parties and latterly, the Doctors involved in the case. ......more info>>> | |
| Email Apology from Christine Beasley, Chief Nursing Officer CHRISTINE BEASLEY, CHIEF NURSING OFFICER - CNO, APOLOGISES VIA EMAIL! Personal From: Christine.Beasley@dh.gsi.gov.uk You may not know t......more info>>> | |
| Another Letter to Sir Andrew Cash OBE 26/10/09 Dear Sir Andrew, I remain perplexed in view of your letter dated 30/9/09 notwithstanding your letter dated 14/8/09 addressed to my M.P. David Wille......more info>>> | |
| Palliative Care under Debate The Patients Association Report 27/8/09 has opened up a wide debate about Palliative Care and End of Life Care. First to comment were the eminent ......more info>>> | |
| Thomas Milner's Palliative Nursing Care Thomas Milner our husband, father, and grandfather spent his last 5 days being pushed from pillar to post and finally ended up for the last 40 hours o......more info>>> | |
| NHS Complaint Procedure Beware of the NHS Complaints procedure - our comments from our experience. The NHS Complaints Proceedure is carefully set out by the NHS! Our ......more info>>> | |
| How to Complain to the NHS The NHS employs thousands of staff to man the offices of it various stages of the NHS Complaints procedure. To get justice is difficult when the NH......more info>>> | |
| NHS - Recommended Books Recommended books. Read about corruption and deceit in our NHS and Labour Government! ....................................................... 'T......more info>>> | |
| Excerpt from 'Fleeced' by David Craig 'Fleeced'!: How we've been betrayed by the politicians, bureaucrats and bankers, and how much they've cost us. Click on the 'File Attachment' belo......more info>>> | |
| Patients Association - HealthCare Charity The Patients Association was set up more than 40 years ago to promote the voice of patients in healthcare. It is a registered charity based in North L......more info>>> | |
| NHS Sends Staff for Private Treatment Excerpt from the Patients Association Weekly Newsletter, 23/10/09 Click here if you wish to receive the Patients Assocition Weekly Newsletter 6......more info>>> | |
| 4 out of 10 Patients Receive Sub-Standard Care NCEPOD report reveals shocking levels of poor care for hospital patients The National Confidential Enquiry into Patient Outcome and Death (NCEPOD) ......more info>>> | |
| Basildon University Hospital Fails Patients Maidstone. Tunbridge Wells. Stoke Mandeville. Mid staffordshire. Now Basildon. Will this be described as another one off? Yet again we find patients b......more info>>> | |
| End of Life Care A General summary of accepted End of Life Care plan's and strategies will be here soon.......more info>>> | |
| LCP - Liverpool Care Pathway for the Dying Patient Details of the Liverpool Care Pathway/Plan for the Dying Patient will be here soon. The Marie Curie Institute, Liverpool is setting out a new draft......more info>>> | |
| Euthanasia Euthanasia and Assisted Dying is a 'hot' subject in the UK at the moment. Here we will list the benefits and pitfalls of the use of Euthanasia. ......more info>>> | |
| NHS/Government Contacted AGAIN Our Reply letter to Sir Andrew Cash OBE is at 'Reply Letter to Sir Andrew Cash OBE'. Our reply 22/9/09 to Sir Andrew Cash OBE, Chief Executive of t......more info>>> | |
| Our Reply to Andrew Cash and NHS 22/9/09 Dear Ladies and Gentlemen, Re: THOMAS MILNER Case No. 6 PATIENTS ASSOCIATION REPORT 27/8/09 www.tomsanguish.com I wrote to you all, 30/6/09, a......more info>>> | |