Thread by @MartinJKeatings

Just to clarify here for everyone that reads this thread. 4 years I have been patient on this. And trust me, if I wanted to be a dick, I could easily release documents which would make very uncomfortable reading for the Health Secretary, but I haven't. But it's coming!

https://twitter.com/MartinJKeatings/status/1367466031669792768

But the long and short of it (and many followers have seen this develop over the years) is that on 9th Feb 2017 I was denied remedial surgery to fix issue caused by NHS Fife's consistent failures over a decade. This ended up with the SPSO who took 2 years to investigate...

They released their final report on 2nd May 2019 and told NHS Fife to comply with the ruling by 28th June 2019. It is now 4 years (9th Feb 2021) since the initial complaint and despite NHS Fife agreeing with the ruling they have still not complied with the SPSO.

The Health Secretary will not become involved until a section 16 special report to parliament is issued by the SPSO but the SPSO has never issued one in its 20 year history.

The SPSO does not want to issue one (and there is actually no policy for the implementation of one) because that would mean admitting defeat to make a public service comply with her ruling to politicians.

And so the complaint sits in a catch 22 with the public service laughing.

Since the ruling, the public service has lied to NHS Lothian, tried to restrain NHS Grampian under a non-disclosure agreement. Both of those two...

...resulting in the doctors dropping the second opinions out of conflict of interest (because what doctor wants to be a patsy). A failed second opinion from NHS England and attempting to gain an opinion from Glasgow, excluding the patient (me) from the process...

...and disallowing any self-advocacy about the matters in question.

All of this nonsense is having direct and serious issues for my health. The use of a walking aid means that I am losing fine motor function in my hands. I have burns to my mouth, throat and lungs from acid.

I likely now have issues with my heart because of increased blood pressure - the surgery would have wiped out my type II diabetes (90% chance) had it been conducted 4 years ago, but likely not now.

Long story short - the Health Secretaries unwillingness to do her job is actively destroying my health. And trust me this is just the tip of the iceberg because I haven't even gone into the fact that during all of this, the same people responsible at the board were...

...emboldened enough to try and write my mother off and deny her a second opinion for 5 months on the original diagnosis resulting in a 5 month slugging match. and when forced to deliver that second opinion? It found they'd misdiagnosed her with cancer!

No! That's not a joke! Cancer! They were so consumed with covering their own asses, emboldened by policies with absolutely no accountability and zero repercussions that for 5 months we were made to believe our mother had cancer!

So you can imagine after 4 years I have a right to speak out!