Thread by @MartinJKeatings

I note in the response to Alex Rowley MSP, @JeaneF1Freeman mentions NHS Fife attempting to get a second opinion from NHS England and NHS Glasgow. You failed to mention, however, Jeane, the fact that they went to lothian and lothian dropped it because...

...they were lied to by NHS Fife and also because NHS Fife failed to disclose to the SPSO that the lothian and fife services had merged 3 months prior to the SPSO's ruling meaning they were trying to send it to themselves. The false claims with respect to clinical status...

....resulting in the doctor at NHS Lothian dropping it due to conflict of interest. I also note your failure to disclose to Mr. Rowley the fact that they then went to NHS Grampian and that the doctor didn't go ahead with that second opinion because NHS Fife tried to...

...get him to sign a non-disclosure agreement which would have prevented him putting his opinion on the patients medical records. I also note that you failed to mention to Mr. Rowley the fact that ther was no reason for the opinion not being done by NHS England...

...that was disclosed, or the fact that the NHS Glasgow second opinion deliberately excluded the patient from self-advocacy and that the referral paperwork has deliberately been witheld from the patient so he is unable to check the veracity of claims made about....

....clinical status to NHS Glasgow. I also note that you fail to mention that you wont step into the issue until the SPSO issues a section 16 special report (knowing that the SPSO has never issued one in its 20-year existence and that there is no formal criteria for issuing it)..

I also note that you did not mention the fact that despite NHS Fife not complying with the ruling of the SPSO since the 2nd of May 2019 and the entire complaint now having subsisted for 4 YEARS as of the 9th of Feb, it is still not resolved.

Now I have not released the correspondence pertinent to this complaint because you and I both know that my correspondence goes into other serious issues at the board which are relevant to the current national health crisis.

However, on the basis that I am now 4 years overdue for a surgery which was denied on a technicality which the SPSO ruled was unreasonable. On the basis that I am having to sleep verticle because acid is burning my throat and lungs, destroying my teeth etc....

...on the basis that I am losing fine motor function in both hands because of reliance on a walking aid I would not otherwise require - and on the basis that I am now having to seek cardiac examinations due to high blood pressure (a complication which I have been warning...

...could happen as a result of all this for four years) perhaps you and your department might get its finger out of its arse and fix this. Not after the issuing of a section 16 report from the SPSO which will never come, but before you retire!

Or I can just have your ass hauled back to explain yourself when this eventually ends up in a judicial review? Your choice minister!

@JeaneF1MSP

Furthermore, I absolutely condemn the SPSO - It is a toothless and useless organisation that spends more time kissing the asses of public services than actually holding them to account. They can't even enforce their own rulings when the public service ACCEPTED THE RULING!

I condemn the national policy on complaints brought in under shona robison and overseen by Jeane - Oh yes! This complaint has survived two health secretaries and is about to move to a third.

I condemn the fact that my health is suffering serious detriment because a policy that was supposed to deliver "accountability, openness, transparency" etc is well.......shit!

I consider this matter, no longer to be one of discrimination, nor of medical malpractice - I consider it to be one now of self-defence. Which means the rules change.

And I will also say that I don't need to prove the matters raised in the correspondence I will release publicly, because 70% of them were confirmed by the NEC Deanery and the GMC three months after I raised them.

For those reading this, this is what someone at their witts end who has tried to actually give cover to the health secretary looks like. Well those days are over folks.

I have formally called on parliament through petition (wit over 150 signatories) to commence an investigation into the efficacy of the SPSO. Next will be into the efficacy of the NHS CHP under Jeane Freeman. The SPSO petition will be submitted after the may election.