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Hi everyone
I'm new to the forum and I wondered if someone on here who is familiar with the subject data act and possibly medical negligence cases?
Unfortunately the limitation period is very close and issues related to my medical records have basically cost me loss of case.
I have requested to see my records obtained by my solicitors on several occasions. Only now when it's to late have they been sent to me.
I had raised many questions over 2 years in respect to the medico legal experts reports chronology
Upon receipt of denied liability from the Defendant and the content of why liability was being denied only raised more alarm bells.
Let down by my consultant whom I trusted and then my solicitors has been to much
Upon reviewing my medical file from my solicitor it became evident very quickly why I had received such a poor Medicolegal report
My records contained all data relating to my emergency readmission and emergency redo surgery performed 8 days aft my original day case elective surgery, but the records relating to my original surgery all but 3 reports unsigned and barely ledgable were within my file.
I immediately contacted the ho of concern to then receive the records that had been missing since the day be my emergency readmission and after speaking with a doctor on call whom told me to come to the ward the day after
Further records within these missing surgical records were from my emergency readmission reports from the aneathasist. Recording my anaesthetic records from original surgery were not within my medical records, nor on the system. Noted by the aesthetist as raised with seniority and flagged, further reported to the records department
During my original surgery, stated by my consultant as straight forward procedure reads that during the surgery I had to be re tubed x3, help was requested I was bagged and my tube was blocked
It's recorded as bronchospasm and plugging and emergency physio required on ward
I awoke from the pr in agony, and returned to the main ward on oxygen and had to stay in
My pain scores were 7
I was given ketamin and so much more all of which not on orig records with solicitors
And my consultant states I asked to stay in but didn't need to
I was seen by a phy with my husband and couldn't do all the exercises and had very poor scores
There is a hand written notes from another physio whom I never saw. The time line betw is 5 min and the one I did see recorded as time 14.20 states I was perfect in every way. Scores of 5/5 their is no proforma for this either
I was seen by only one physio at 14.25 reported as 2/5, 3/5 etc
The discharge report is not upto guidelines or anything
I thought my consultant did the procedure he didn't a trainee surgeon did it. Apparently my consultant assisted noted on these files only just been found as him being unscrubbed
The Surgery I was listed for was a day case left sided L5s1 microdiscectomy
Instead my disc space wasn't entered and I had a left-sided Laminectomy
Consent I signed stated left l5s1 microdiscectomy
Now reads left l5s1 mi and decompression
The procedure noted by aneathasist report missing until now report s left l5s1 microdiscectomy
I need help putting a letter together to the hospital please I'm desperate as I don't want what happened to me to happen to anyone else
Further the surgeon who did my emergency surgery the surgery I should have had to begin with. Now has gone back on all he said and a letter to me with complete opposite to what originally said to my husband and I was in this file and I hadn't seen before it was also sent to my original consultant without my consent when aware that a legal case was in process. The issue the second surgery was almost negligent also
Please help if u can
I'm new to the forum and I wondered if someone on here who is familiar with the subject data act and possibly medical negligence cases?
Unfortunately the limitation period is very close and issues related to my medical records have basically cost me loss of case.
I have requested to see my records obtained by my solicitors on several occasions. Only now when it's to late have they been sent to me.
I had raised many questions over 2 years in respect to the medico legal experts reports chronology
Upon receipt of denied liability from the Defendant and the content of why liability was being denied only raised more alarm bells.
Let down by my consultant whom I trusted and then my solicitors has been to much
Upon reviewing my medical file from my solicitor it became evident very quickly why I had received such a poor Medicolegal report
My records contained all data relating to my emergency readmission and emergency redo surgery performed 8 days aft my original day case elective surgery, but the records relating to my original surgery all but 3 reports unsigned and barely ledgable were within my file.
I immediately contacted the ho of concern to then receive the records that had been missing since the day be my emergency readmission and after speaking with a doctor on call whom told me to come to the ward the day after
Further records within these missing surgical records were from my emergency readmission reports from the aneathasist. Recording my anaesthetic records from original surgery were not within my medical records, nor on the system. Noted by the aesthetist as raised with seniority and flagged, further reported to the records department
During my original surgery, stated by my consultant as straight forward procedure reads that during the surgery I had to be re tubed x3, help was requested I was bagged and my tube was blocked
It's recorded as bronchospasm and plugging and emergency physio required on ward
I awoke from the pr in agony, and returned to the main ward on oxygen and had to stay in
My pain scores were 7
I was given ketamin and so much more all of which not on orig records with solicitors
And my consultant states I asked to stay in but didn't need to
I was seen by a phy with my husband and couldn't do all the exercises and had very poor scores
There is a hand written notes from another physio whom I never saw. The time line betw is 5 min and the one I did see recorded as time 14.20 states I was perfect in every way. Scores of 5/5 their is no proforma for this either
I was seen by only one physio at 14.25 reported as 2/5, 3/5 etc
The discharge report is not upto guidelines or anything
I thought my consultant did the procedure he didn't a trainee surgeon did it. Apparently my consultant assisted noted on these files only just been found as him being unscrubbed
The Surgery I was listed for was a day case left sided L5s1 microdiscectomy
Instead my disc space wasn't entered and I had a left-sided Laminectomy
Consent I signed stated left l5s1 microdiscectomy
Now reads left l5s1 mi and decompression
The procedure noted by aneathasist report missing until now report s left l5s1 microdiscectomy
I need help putting a letter together to the hospital please I'm desperate as I don't want what happened to me to happen to anyone else
Further the surgeon who did my emergency surgery the surgery I should have had to begin with. Now has gone back on all he said and a letter to me with complete opposite to what originally said to my husband and I was in this file and I hadn't seen before it was also sent to my original consultant without my consent when aware that a legal case was in process. The issue the second surgery was almost negligent also
Please help if u can
