UKIP-MEP Letter to NHS Sheffield

UKIP-MEP letter is below our comments:

After NOT getting any straight answers to some very SIMPLE questions from the NHS Sheffield Hospital Trust, we contacted Mr. Nigel Farage, our UKIP-MEP for help.

The Office of our UKIP-MEP has been more than supportive and wrote to Mr. D. Stone, Chairman of the NHS Sheffield Teaching Hospital Foundation Trust 19/8/09.

Mr. D. Stone was an 'Executive' wheeled out to tackle the appauling 'Ward 87', Staffordshire NHS Hospital Crisis. It is interesting to read of Mr. Stone's handling of the affair!
Read hear - Mr. D. Stone, Chairman of the NHS Sheffield Teaching Hospital Foundation Trust and his involvement in the North Staffs NHS Hospital Scandal!

Upto today 19/10/09 our UKIP-MEP and ourselves have NOT had a reply from Mr. Stone!

We would like to THANK VERY MUCH the UKIP-MEP Mr. Nigel Farage and Mr. Andrew Reed of the UKIP office for all their help.

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The UKIP-MEP Letter is here:

Nigel Farage UKIP-MEP
ASP/4F158 Wiertzstraat 60 1047-Brussel Belgium (0032/0) 228 47855
nigel.farage@europarl.europa.eu

Mr D. Stone
Hallamshire Hospital
Glossop Road
Sheffield
Yorks
S10 2JF 19.8.09

Dear Mr Stone

I write on behalf of UKIP-MEP Mr Farage's constituent, Mrs. Brooks, concerning her questions, to The Trust, about the circumstances of her father's death.

She tells me that she has attempted to obtain answers, to these questions, several times, but has not yet received a satisfactory reply.

I'm sure you are more aware, than I am, of the pre-occupation, with such circumstances, which grief imposes on the bereaved, and which needs to be addressed delicately, yet forthrightly, if it is not to be exacerbated.

Since such pre-occupation can also give rise to medical problems for the bereaved themselves, addressing it adequately might be considered a Hippocratic duty, in addition to the requirements of good administration and good public relations.

Furthermore, Mrs. Brooks' questions do not appear to me to be vexatious or obsessive, as some enquiries of this nature might tend to be, but reasonable and exact, and I would be most grateful if you could answer them, to her satisfaction, at your earliest convenience.

Please consider the questions, as they appear overleaf, and reply to Mrs. Brooks, at her home-address, which I imagine you have on file.

Yours sincerely

Andrew S. Reed
(Office of UKIP-MEP Nigel Farage, Brussels, www.ukip.org )

Mrs. Brooks' Questions

1) Why wasn't my father given his prescribed 'top up', prn prescribed morphine on the afternoon of the 10th January, 2006 and again around 8.00 a.m. on the 11th January, 2006?
(In the 'Sunday Telegraph' article a hospital spokesman said that 'he had indicated he did not have a pain on the afternoon of the 10th’ his penultimate day, although on the previous day it was written in the medical notes that he was 'too ill and unable to have a discussion with staff'. On the 10th at 11.30a.m. the Palliative Care Consultant wrote ‘Tom probably unaware of his surroundings’. Also in the Medical Notes it says on the 9th and 11th that he was in pain.)

2) Why wasn't the syringe driver increased on the morning of the 10th to take into account the 6 extra top ups that he had needed during the previous 16 hours (as is standard palliative care practice) and after after the syringe driver (drip) had been in situ for 32 hours holding just 10mgs. Morphine?
For the whole length of time that the syringe driver was in situ (55 hours) it was NEVER increased, (as IS standard palliative care practice). It was however doubled on the morning of the 11th after my call to the family G.P and he died 1 hour later. (Doubling of Morphine levels is NOT standard palliative care practice).

3) Why was my father resuscitated on the 7th January 2006 when in the Medical Notes it said DNR (Do Not Resuscitate)?
He was resuscitated to then be allowed to suffer ending up twisting and writhing on his ‘death bed’ until death arrived on the morning of the 11th January 2006.

Thanks again to Mr. Nigel Farage our UKIP-MEP and Mr. Andrew Reed of UKIP's office and all of the staff for their continued support in our cause.

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You can contact Nigel Farage or Andrew Reed, UKIP at:
nigel.farage@europarl.europa.eu

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David Stone, Chairman - NHS Sheffield Teaching Hospital Foundation Trust