MEDICAL OPINION COMPLIMENT SLIP

 LETTER FROM HEATH HOUSE HOSPITAL dated June 1999

 I had asked for time to do what was necessary for my practice before going to hospital and  the Dental Advisor in the Health Board and he said he would do all in his power to help. This was instrumental in my decision to accept the treatment.

My practice was left open, haemorrhaging patients, and collapsed causing the hell I returned to in July 1998.

Totally destroying ALL the hard work I had put in in the preceding 5 months. This caused the telephone call from my receptionist a week or two into my stay in hospital  when she didn't know what to do, it the last telephone call I allowed and I was NOT allowed to make outgoing calls and followed closely every where I went
It appears I was fully retired AND taken off the Dental Register on June 12th 1998 and then because I was technically open as I STILL received diminishing capitation payments I was in effect still working so therefore NOT retired, so was "un-retired". Then after a few traumatic letters, telephone calls I was EVENTUALLY re-retired in November 1998.
So not even the retirement proceedings with the NHS Pensions agency could be done properly by Dr A.

The Health Authority said it was their mistake, sadly NOT in writing, and said I would not suffer a financial penalty for it. The NHS Solicitor said otherwise and I owed £4500 to be paid IMMEDIATELY. My pension was stopped until I paid, which was a bit of a problem as my bank accounts were frozen and any incoming monies was to be used, so I learnt later, to pay off my loan for the practice, inflated sadly by the previous 5 months or so.
There are letters, in my Medical Notes, from the Dental Advisor saying my practice should be sold as a going concern dated late July or early August. TOO LATE my business was already ruined. There is a letter from another Dentist on the Local health Board that says I should be retired AND a letter from Dr A to that person, in 1999, where Dr A expresses his " concern" that I was "in conflict" with that man's advice.
YET it was Dr A's responsibility, as my GP, to tell me diagnosis, treatment plan and prognosis something he NEVER has done.

Retirement is the singular most important act for a Professional business man. My business was my LIFE and he denied me the right to close it my way and EVEN the formality of my retirement was not done correctly. AND THIS WAS TOTALLY OUT OF MY CONTROL.  ALL caused because I, as the patient, was not given ANY knowledge of the proceedings that were under way.

No indication that I would be hospitalised and retired with seven days, andTHEN in June 1999 there is the letter from Heath House Priory and written AFTER I had gone through the majority of the financial hell unleashed by my sudden disappearance and at about the time the CSA started to get really nasty. I ended up with a Deductions of Earnings Order being placed on me.

 I now had catastrophically WORSE problems NOW than before. All BECAUSE of that enforced 6 week stay in hospital.

Still Dr A said nothing.

I was trying to deal with a catastrophic disaster, far worse than BEFORE hospitalisation, whilst on prescription medication and constantly being reinforced I was/could be a HIGH RISK SUICIDE at outpatient appointments with the Psychiatric Hospital. In his response to my formal complaint

Dr A said HE WAS ALWAYS THERE FOR ME YET it took 18 months  A year and a half of me pleading for help for him to arrange the first visit with his practice counsellor.

For that and his memory loss he was described as EXEMPLARY.

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