A closer look:
©Am Ang Zhang 2005
I wrote a while back about: ?A National Car Service.
NCS (National Car Service)?
Imagine a society where you take your beloved car
to a Private Garage for some repair work and it turns out that the Private
Garage did a very bad job and did serious damage to the engine, transmission
and other unknown bits. Now imagine that there is a State run National Car
Service that will put right everything and at no cost to you and no charge to
the Private Garage that did the damage in the first place.
Would it not be wonderful?
Doctors continued operating on
Kelly McLure, 31, after she suffered her cardiac arrest at the private
Belvedere Hospital, in Kent, it was claimed.
Southwark Coroner’s Court was told
paramedics were kept waiting for 45 minutes despite insisting on taking her
straight to A&E.
Instead Dr Edward Latimer-Sayer,
her surgeon and Dr Ahmed el Sayed Moustafa, the anaesthetist, continued with
the routine nose and chin procedure after stabilising her.
Mrs McLure, known as Kat, suffered
brain damage during the operation on November 22, 2005. She died six months
later.
In
2002, Denise checked into a private clinic for what should have been a
straightforward procedure to remove fat from her stomach. Afterwards she spent
six weeks in intensive care (in NHS hospital), the surgeon having repeatedly
punctured her bowel.
In
the next seven years (again under the NHS) she endured more than 20 operations
to repair the damage before succumbing to meningitis in 2009. She was 43.
Read all about it here>>>>
The surgery
was performed by Dr Gustaf Aniansson (from Sweden), at the private Broughton Park Hospital near
Preston, Lancashire . Dr Gustaf Aniansson
took himself off the GMC register so that he could not be struck off and it was
believed he continues to practice in Sweden
In
the new world order of our NHS, private provider (AQP)for commercial reasons
need not let the public have access to information about their activities etc,
and even the doctors they provide. As they say, be very afraid.
The PIP breast implant scandal rumbles on with a seeming
stand-off between the Minister of Health and the principal users of these
implants, Transform and The Harley Medical Group.
Transform has nothing on its website (that I could find) to
inform patients about the PIP implant issue. The Harley Medical Group does so here, but feels that this is a problem that it wishes to lay on
the MRHA for licensing the PIP implants. Both are interesting organisations,
with peripheral clinics where early consultations with Nurse specialists are
followed by surgery at a few central hospitals. The Transform group lists its
Surgical staff here. I could not find similar information on the Harley Group website, though they do
state that their surgeons are on the UK Specialist Register as Plastic
Surgeons, this may well be because of recognition in another EU state. Several
on the Transform website seem to have only Specialist Training as General
Surgeons. The Transform Surgeons have mostly trained overseas and are not
rooted in the UK medical culture in the same way as most BAAPS members, most of
whom have past or present substantive NHS Consultant posts.
It is my understanding that if there is just one fully
registered surgeon prepared to be clinically responsible, ANYTHING GOES. For all we know, it could be someone from
Sweden and that someone could at short notice resign from the GMC.
Perhaps SoS will have to set up an NBS,
National Breast Service soon.
Right
now, we still have the NHS, the National Health Service. It is free even if the
damage was done by a private doctor and treatment will be for as long as it
takes. The private doctor will not be charged any fee and some even continues
to practice here or in other countries.
Soon, such a National Health Service
may not be there! That is how the government is going to save money.
4 comments:
Dear CC,
It reads as if I think overseas doctors suspect. That was not my intention. I have many overseas trained colleagues with strong values and integrity.
It does seem curious that Transforms surgeons do not include any British graduates. Is this because Transforms management finds recruiting elsewhere better? Or is it a tacit boycott by British Graduates who would rather work in the more autonomous practice possible in the Spire/BMI/Nuffield hospitals
i had breast implants done by mr aniasstan,which went wrong and had to be replaced by him at broughton ark hospital preston does anyone know where i can find out if that hospital used pip implants as i have no way of finding out
Sorry to hear that, the hospital should be able to let you know if you write to them with a copy to CQC (http://cqc.ny.gov/) and your referring GP.
Good luck.
I also had my implants done at Broughton Park Hospital Preston in 2000. As the hospital no longer exsists I don't know hoe to find out if I have PIP's. Any ideas how I can procede.
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