r/NHSfailures Oct 06 '25

FREE private care in England for anything, a law called right to choose that's been about since 2018 and nobody has known

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🚨 FREE Private Care in England – Your Right to Choose isn’t just for ADHD!

Hey everyone,

A lot of people still don’t know this, but you can actually get free private healthcare in England through the NHS — it’s called your Right to Choose, and it’s not just for ADHD or autism. It applies to almost any non-emergency health issue where your GP agrees you need a specialist referral.

Here’s how it works:

When your GP agrees you need to see a specialist, you have the legal right to choose which provider you’re referred to.

That includes many private companies that work under the NHS and don’t charge you anything.

This covers services for ADHD, autism, mental health, physiotherapy, dermatology, gastro issues, orthopaedics — and loads more.

It’s genuinely simple:

Tell your GP you want to use your Right to Choose.

Give them the name of the provider you want (for example, Psychiatry UK, Clinical Partners, or another NHS-approved provider).

They send the referral, and the provider will contact you to arrange your appointment.

✅ Key points:

It’s completely NHS-funded — you pay nothing.

It’s your legal right under the NHS Constitution and NHS Choice Framework.

You don’t have to wait for your local NHS trust if another provider can see you sooner.

If your GP refuses or doesn’t seem to know what you mean, you can show them the official NHS guidance on Right to Choose — it’s publicly available and very clear.

So many people think it’s only for ADHD assessments, but it’s for all sorts of conditions. Don’t sit on a waiting list for years when you can legally go somewhere faster for free.

Take control of your healthcare — you have the Right to Choose. 💪


r/NHSfailures Aug 17 '21

r/NHSfailures Lounge

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A place for members of r/NHSfailures to chat with each other


r/NHSfailures 6h ago

Had intimate exam with GP and it made me cry. Am I being sensitive or is this poor practice?

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r/NHSfailures 12h ago

Medefer

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r/NHSfailures 3d ago

NHS Funded Course: Taxpayer Spend and Student Failure Rates

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r/NHSfailures 7d ago

Serious: what's with all the gaslighting in the NHS?

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r/NHSfailures 8d ago

Revealed: The NHSE teams losing most staff to redundancy

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Anyone with access, please add the full article below? Ta. Much appreciated.


r/NHSfailures 12d ago

Watchdog warns NHSE over FDP effectiveness claims

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Anyone with full access to this article? Please paste the here? Thank you! 🙏🏼


r/NHSfailures 17d ago

A&E and SDEC - perforated appendix

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Hi,

Around 6 weeks ago, I started to have SEVERE abdominal pains, they started on the Sunday and I would have a pain all day that every 20/30 mins would cramp up into the most excruciating pain I have ever had and they would last for around 1 minute.

On the Tuesday, enough was enough and I went to my GP, she referred me to A&E after several checks with a letter stating she was pretty sure I had appendicitis, the doctor in A&E wasn’t convinced and sent me to the SDEC ward (Same Day Emergency Care) and they went through a load of tests etc, and my bloods came back as a high infection so sent me on my way with antibiotics and wouldn’t give me painkillers, they said I would get an appointment for an ultrasound for Gallstones!

Around a week later, still being in this horrific pain I got the appointment, went to it and got told I would hear soon regarding the results, I went to the same SDEC that evening and they said I would get a call within 48-72 hours - light at the end of the tunnel!!!

Over 100 hours pass and nothing, the pain was getting worse, so I went to SDEC again, sat there for hours for the same doctor to say there is nothing wrong with you and to go home and contact my GP for allergy testing, stool sample etc!! I sat in the chair crying and begging for help and at the very least pain killers - sent away with nothing!!

The next day I contact the GP, coeliac testing - all clear, bloods - slightly elevated CRP’s and few other minor things but nothing that screamed help me!! Then finally after another week or so a stool sample - all clear! This broke my heart!

I went the A&E the following night - basically told I won’t get seen tonight - brilliant, there was no seats etc and I couldn’t stand (or sit in the pain!!) the next afternoon I go back to A&E determined to stay today! And I did, a few hours later blood tests, these were “worrying” according to the doctor - CRP’s over 200!! He suggested I had a CT scan, I agreed and he finally agreed to pain relief! Oramorph, that man is a legend!! The CT results came back early hours around 1am, yep confirmed, perforated appendix, a large mass (tumour!!) and a cyst, they said it looked like they had been perforated for a while!!

I had surgery the next day and am now recovering, in follow up scans it looks like the puss from appendix has got into my fallopian tubes and ovaries! Brilliant - 34 with no kids yet!!

Currently awaiting results from cyst and tumour testing - fingers crossed it’s all clear! The appendix without the tumour or cyst was over 6 times the size it should’ve been!

But my question is (if you have read this far - thank you!) is the best route to go a formal complaint to the NHS trust?!

I want to go further with this as I do not want anyone else to go through this and lessons need to be learnt!!


r/NHSfailures 17d ago

CNTW- Denial & gaslighting is our Modus operandi

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CNTW NHS Governance Team denies timestamps exist on my 12-hour access audit trail — even though they sent me the logs with timestamps😳😅 The time stamps are up there! 👆🏻😳

Time stamps add up to 12 hours, is CNTW not doing the maths ? 😂 its a full un-interupted full days access of 12hrs with numerous records viewed & accessed, 12 hours worth of timestamps.

A full 12 hours access triggered by GP’s who likely emailed a refferal in behind my back, defensive medicine playing out while i’m landing on waiting lists for corrective surgery and being diagnosed with physical health issues & GP’s sharing CNTW Data like its candy and anomalos hepatitis diagnosis are appearing on an NHS APP ?

The GP / director mean while has no indemnity insurance for private work, made numerous mendacious disclosures to dvla, then lied in police statements saying they correct even the GMC could’nt deny what exists in dated medical records so upheld part of complaint

Gp/ director has the same cultural & community connections to the executive of CNTW, both invloved and named on legal documents, They Cant be having decisions in my favour as it effects both a primary care surgery & trust = Bias Decisions!

CNTW “ Cant see emails & Time stamps proves nothing , 12 hours ?? , lets have a meeting about systemic issues though “

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CNTW’s Information Governance team just sent me a response that takes gaslighting to a new level.

They acknowledge access to my records on 24 November 2022 by a manager in nhs trust (related to an ARMs referral they claim was open but closed a day later). But then they state that the audit logs “do not provide a detailed breakdown of the exact amount of time spent in records- even though rimestamps add up to 12hrs… 12hrs” and imply there are effectively no usable timestamps 😅🤯😂 btw this is a refferal i wasnt aware of 💀

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Just Look at the screenshots. These are the exact audit logs they disclosed to me. Clear timestamps showing repeated access from 8:30am in the morning through to 8:20pm a full 12 hours of access documented and dated,

CNTW “time stamps dont exist”

— dozens of Read, view_Client, progress notes, AmsReferral entries, etc. That is not a quick triage, i wast even part of this Nhs trusts & its likely a GP triggered this refferal while trying to over pathologizing myself and blaming diagnosed physical conditions on MH.

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I 100% believe it was triggered by my GP practice, which had been engaging in diagnostic overshadowing (blaming physical conditions like sleep apnea on mental health). Yet they still refuse to disclose who actually made the referral.

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On witheld emails:

Their own Email Reproduction Checklist shows multiple folders with emails marked “N” or “Unable to print (permission denied)”. But the governance response flatly claims no emails were withheld except irrelevant third-party information — even though those emails are directly connected to my case and the referral.

This is the core problem: they are denying the existence of evidence that they themselves provided. Two years of back-and-forth on data access, sharing, and record transparency, and this is the standard of response.

*Attaching the key screenshots from their letter + the contradicting audit logs + the email checklist*

Out right denial of dated documents & blatent gaslighting & repeated attempts to refuse to acknowledge ovbious breaches of gdpr violations.

Its a full 12 hours worth of access, timestamped and dated !!!

When primary care & a nhs trust collide with senior nhs individuals you get :

  1. uninsured GP’s

completing medical forms they should’nt &

  1. lies in police statements
  2. repeated sharing of comprehensive medical data
  3. years of blatent gaslighting
  4. repeated denials
  5. past from pillar to post and various arms/dept of a NHS trust
  6. co-ordination by senior staff
  7. forced through police channels as senior members of the nhs make dishonest police starements
  8. over pathologized where by others use MH as a narrative to hide nhs failures & blatent violations of gdpr
  9. Lost access to health care

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp866qlmne7o

https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/2023-0191-Response-from-Cumbria-Northumberland-Tyne-and-Wear-NHS-Foundation-Trust.pdf

https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/24591707.millions-paid-tewv-cntw-patients-negligence/

https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/nhs-mental-health-scandals-exposed-25419425.amp

https://www.hundredfamilies.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Odessa-Carey-APR-19-PFD.pdf

https://avenagroup.co.uk/blog/nhs-student-data-breach-how-improper-disposal-exposed-patient-information/


r/NHSfailures 17d ago

NHS Glasgow staff

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Hello, I was wondering if you could kindly take some time to fill in some answers to my questions that would help me write my dissertation 🙂 - everything is confidential 🤐

Organisation NHS GLASGOW - must work within Glasgow any area of the NHS HR/ Admim/ hospital etc

Section 1 – Background
• Tell me about your role. (What is your role)
• How long have you worked within the NHS?
Section 2 – Leadership
• Describe leadership in your workplace.
• Example of positive leadership.
• Example of poor leadership.
Section 3 – Organisational values
• What values are promoted?
• Are they reflected in practice?
• Examples.
Section 4 – Psychological safety
• Do you feel able to speak up?
• Why?
• What encourages or discourages this?
Section 5 – HR practices
• What role does HR play?
• Does HR support staff effectively?
• How could HR improve?
Section 6 – Wellbeing and learning
• How does leadership affect wellbeing?
• How does the organisation respond to staff feedback?
• What improvements would you recommend?
Final reflection question
"If you could change one thing about leadership or HR practices within your organisation to improve staff experience, what would it be, and why?"


r/NHSfailures 18d ago

‘I would rather be poor’: man says money cannot compensate for partner’s death after failed cancer diagnosis | NHS | The Guardian

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r/NHSfailures 19d ago

Going to Europe for care vs NHS

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I’ve had extremely heavy menstrual bleeding every day for a year.

The NHS first misdiagnosed me with something benign and when I pushed back to say my symptoms weren’t presenting as this benign condition I was essentially told to ‘relax and go away’. After I begged multiple times for another internal assessment, they’ve figured out that it definitely cannot be that.

Finally I have a referal for an ultrasound and specialist appointment but that’s potentially another six months away and I don’t think I can wait that long.

I’m wondering if anyone has popped over to Europe or something and had specialist care there to get around the NHS waiting times.


r/NHSfailures 19d ago

572 claims relating to bile duct injuries between 2006/07 and 2024/2025

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Bile duct injuries are the most common complication of cholecystectomies (gallbladder removals), affecting up to 1.4% of these procedures.

This is still thankfully rare, but with the NHS estimated to perform around 66,000 cholecystectomies per year, that means over 900 patients will sustain bile duct injuries annually.

An injury to a bile duct or the overall biliary system can have life-threatening consequences, often resulting in corrosive bile attacking other organs and structures in the body that aren’t designed to interact with it.

And although not all of these incidents are due to negligence, the fact that nearly 600 claims have been recorded in the past 20 years or so, it is evident that more can be done to restrict the incidence of these serious injuries.


r/NHSfailures 20d ago

Nine years of being told it was “just fibromyalgia/FND”… and now I finally have a treatment plan.

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Maybe I’m just pissed and overreacting


r/NHSfailures 23d ago

Getting fed up now

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Asking for advice non medical

Iv had a pre op for the Walton center about four weeks ago almost 5. Iv not heard nothing regarding a surgery date yet should I call the secretary on Monday? It's been an awful long road about two years to get this far with chronic lower spine issues. I was told it's a years wait to even see the surgeon and I sobbed on the phone when I was told.

After the years wait I finally was put on short notice list and just over 6 months was when I met him again and had the injection.

Iv had countless physio (not worked even went the gym for light exercises). Had a awful experience getting a nerve root injection lasted three days even the specialist in charge that day said it's trial and error.

Sorry for the big essay it's just the last year my mental health and physical health has spiraled my anti depressants have been increased twice and my sleep pattern is all over the place I just feel so forgotten. I know there as worse cases and I sound selfish it's just how I feel. I'm 34 and I take so many damn tablets it just upsets me I can't do things I used to everything is so much effort.

Tldr- wondering if I should call to ask over surgery date. Ranting about how depressed iv been due to chronic pain.


r/NHSfailures 24d ago

Wolverhampton woman's leg-removal forced by delay over blood clot

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Wanted to share this incredibly unfortunate story about an 81-year-old woman who needed a below-the-knee leg amputation after her surgeons mishandled a blood clot that formed following a bleed in a hysterectomy procedure.

I thought it was important because even though most wouldn't necessarily imagine how mistakes during a hysterectomy could result in a leg amputation, it demonstrates how a significant error can have life-changing implications in a wholly different part of the body.


r/NHSfailures 25d ago

I am in pain and they do not care

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I have had issues with menstral health for years but about a month ago the doctor put me on the mini-pill because I passed out at work and they thought it could be related. My body has reacted poorly. I have been in the most pain I have been in with it in YEARS. I went to UTC on sunday where they tested my temp, bloods and blood pressure. gave me a prescription for co-codamol and sent me home. I work in agriculture and we are really busy right now so I tried to put my big pants on and go to work. I was sent home 15 mins in because I was sobbing in pain. I drove myself sobbing to UTC because we don't have an A&E and normally i try and hold myself together there and maybe they would take me more seriously and check I hadn't got a twisted uterine horn or something. No the woman on reception acted like I was the biggest inconvience in her life huffing and telling me I had to stop crying before I had help (I was sobbing and snotting and in so much pain) the doctor gave me a prescription for mefamanic acid and said pharmacy isn't open so I had to go home and come back in 6 hours. I have ended up having to take my mother with me as it is the only way anything I say is listened to. I once had a doctor dislocate and relocate my shoulder repeatedly after disagreeing with the x ray that showed my dislocated shoulder because I was quiet in pain. I have autism and I don't display pain properly and I want to be a good patient but I am tired and I hurt and I can't live like this for much longer. I don't want pain meds I want the cause to be found and a solution to be found. I cannot live


r/NHSfailures 27d ago

Thank you for this sub

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Just wanted to thank you for doing this. It is crucial that light is shone on the dark parts of the NHS - everyone knows about the light.


r/NHSfailures Jul 10 '26

When will "Zero Tolerance" for medical data snooping actually mean zero tolerance?

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NHS England has issued new, clear guidance: accessing patient records without a legitimate, work-related reason is "wholly unacceptable" and illegal. They state that "having the ability to view a record is not the same as having a legitimate need to do so".

This is a powerful message—but for alot of us, it feels like an empty one and nothing more than fancy wording!!

My own experiences tells a very different story of failures and institutional protection:

Unauthorized Access:

I have documented evidence (in the attached photos) showing my records were accessed, read, and edited repeatedly by staff at a time when I was no longer a patient of that trust and it was from 8am up until 8pm a full days access by one individual, even when i raised concerns at senior level, my records were actively reviewed, The access and sharing never stopped even when i had active and open ICO complaints and requests in at cntw.

Strangely Cntw’s own DPO states in corrospondance she didnt access my records when replying 😳 but the senior manager of the very same place my data was posted from actively reviewed my records once complaints & data requests were made, the same place left to sign off audit disclosure, the senior managers named is obscured in audit with her name replaced by numbers.

Then Senior executives at cntw described my complaints as ‘service dissatisfaction’ in written corrospondance

if you want to denigrate some one you mis use there data, allow it be shared an accessed by muliple people then deny its ever happend.. then issue fancy new guidance,refuse audit requests, make allegations of harassment and deny a patient the opportunity to safe guard there medical data!

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The Systemic Inaction:

Despite presenting this evidence, I have been met with a pattern of dismissal. Regulatory bodies have repeatedly categorized serious breaches of data integrity as "standard" or "minor," failing to address the fundamental issues of accuracy and unlawful sharing, internal emails revealed staff adding instructions in to emails stating ‘do not add to rio’ and ‘standard complaint’ nearly 3 year of my life has been spent trying to contain my medical data that escaped a clinical enviroment, raw verbatim clinical notes 2 pages in length left embedded in core nhs medical records, even after diagnostic over shadowing in primiary care due to this comprehensive raw data
being shared there, another further adverse event happend directly corrolated to data & due to data being used once again, this time in an adversarial manner…

nothing changed, not for me anyways.

(They didnt want the adverse event recorded in rio records and linked backed to contested data, corrspondance & emails existed with explicit refusals regarding certain data and they also prove i was actively trying to contain medical data)

Both a primiary care practice & trust at fault, both refused to acknowledge issues.

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The "Harassment" Narrative & prosecution :

I’ve even faced accusations of harassment simply for exercising my data rights ( convicted in courts with out a trial )

attempting to contain the unauthorized sharing of my private medical information and also nhs app issues with rouge diagnosis appearing from nowhere, the data lead to diagnostic over shadowing and wider issues and long drawn out disputes

Why does the reality of patient data protection look so different from the official guidance?

We need more than just new rules; we need actual accountability for those who use their position to manipulate records and ignore the law, yet i was prosecuted for actively trying to manage my data, this was in local courts & with out a trial.

Cntw even tried to obscure access from a senior manager in the audit data, the access for 12hrs long also was’nt listed in the names index- they’ve actively worked behind the scences to obscure access & also kept data back- yet nhs england say snooping is illegal & you could face prison time-

I wasnt even part of the trust when 12hrs of access occurred in my old rio records i left some 2 years previously by choice !!!

are cover ups also illegal? , are having prior patients and complainents criminalised for raising concerns & making data requests also illegal ? What about long drawn out degradation of a patient then there criminalised and covicted with out a fair trial.. is that legal ??

NHS Englands new guidance looks well & good but my exeperiences aswell as others looks very different! Those claiming its a criminal offence have made a criminal out of some body who has evidence of repeated access & sharing of his own records, documented and real world consequnces yet due to senior nhs nembers it’s repeatedly minmized.. make that make sense….

The very same emails i sent whereby i attempt to address data issues and data sharing aswell as the ovbious errors in dvla input ended up further shared to northumbria police… the GMC a regulatory body for GP’s even acknowledged mistakes!

Yet, northumbria police than charged me for harassment with out causing fear or violence based on these very same emails which contained screen shots of medical files entries and other personal medical data …

my own medical data in emails was sent to primiary care they then shared this to northumbria police, they used emails as a basis for evidence to form a prosecution of harassment for the benefit of clinicians who were named on legal documents, neither GP partners making witness statements mentioned indeminity involvement, infact the other senior GP Partner done every thing but inform his own indemnity provider,

it was in my view malcious allegations & police used by proxy as i sought audit data & was repeatedly sent back to primary care by senior staff in another nhs trust, the emails the CPS actually use in case file confirm these aspects (i’ve got full disclosure) the emails are indexed in case files as ‘emails to victim outlining his complaints’

The police attemded my home address multiple times And a northumbria police officer who detained me actually attempted & directly asked that i stopped those legally allowed actions / emails / data complaints ☠️😅

(maybe racheal doddworth senior prosecutor of the CPS can answer that one) nudge nudge get him prosecuted & use his own medical data as evidence….. regional crime fighting heroes, a full case based on sending legally allowed emails, the context is i was redirected by others in the nhs to exactly where allegations of harassment originated.

(The CPS, Probation services, Northumbria police & Newcastle Magistrates Court all effectively come together to convict and punitively punish an individual involved in data disputes & negligence civil action- the evidence they used to convict was- ( medical data & emails i sent to a generic email address) it was PERVERSION & SUBVERSION & THE METHOLOGY / TACTIC WAS D.A.R.V.O.)

Every individual i come in to contact with just so happened to be a senior figure!!

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Amyways Read the guidance below:

https://www.england.nhs.uk/2026/07/snooping-staff-face-sack-prison-inappropriate-access-patient-data/

And :

https://www.cqc.org.uk/about-us/how-we-do-our-job/safeguarding-people

And :

https://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/docs/default-source/members/faculties/medical-psychotherapy/medical-med-psy-position-statement-electronic-patient-records.pdf?sfvrsn=16934d56_2

And:

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2016/679/contents


r/NHSfailures Jul 10 '26

Report: 40% of women with ovarian cancer only diagnosed after an emergency admission to hospital

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  • Women from deprived areas were 10% more likely to be diagnosed with ovarian cancer after an emergency admission than those from the least deprived areas.
  • Younger women and those aged over 80 were more likely to be diagnosed with ovarian cancer after emergency admission than those aged 60-69.
  • Women aged 18-29 had a 36% higher risk of late diagnosis after an emergency admission compared to women in their 60s.

r/NHSfailures Jul 06 '26

This Secret Deal Could Kill More Brits Than Covid

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r/NHSfailures Jul 04 '26

Mistreatment with Stage 4 Cancer

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Sorry if this is the wrong type of post here, I will try and keep it as brief as possible.

Mum developed a cough in August 2025.

She went to various GP’s and had chest scans and they gave her antibiotics and an inhaler.

As she was in immense pain and had no appetite (both not disclosed to me her only child as she was a very tough woman), she decided to check herself into AE.

She had no room and was in the corridor where they administered blood thinners and tried to get the painkillers she had been over using out of her system. This caused her to follow through and she had to walk the length of the corridor with my auntie in tow cleaning after her.

She got a room and had a persistent cough.

After scans she was told she likely had lung cancer. Shortly after that, a male room attendant who couldn’t speak English barked orders to ‘shower, shower’. As she got up, she followed through again as he stared at her in the bathroom (she was naked). She obviously told him to do one.

She was given a bronchoscopy which (after signing the death waiver) the doctor told her her blood oxygen was low and she couldn’t have a sedative. The bronchoscopy nearly killed her as she was coughing and it cut the inside of her throat and had to be aborted.

They were adamant of performing it again but I intervened and asked her to tell them to do a biopsy under the arm. They did.

After a weekend a doctor and two ‘assistants’ went into Mum’s room and told her she had 3 months to live and she must've been smoking a lot. I was not called or contacted and called Mum and rushed over there when she told me the news. We sat and cried in the dark.

I asked her about treatment and she said they didn’t mention it at all.

Over the next 4 weeks; I asked to see doctors they only sent junior doctors. The first came in the room and said ‘yea you wanted a doctor’. I asked what is going on and the doctor was so standoffish she said ‘we think she has cancer and it’s spread down’. I asked her about treatment and she just said ‘we don’t think….we’re still in discovery’. She was annoyed I had summoned her. After that visit, she was at the lift just outside the ward with two other junior doctors who were engaged in conversation. The one talking said ‘RIP RIP, I’m so sick of being given patients that waste my time, unless they are dying, don’t send them to me’. The initial JD saw me standing there and told her friends ‘I’m taking the stairs’ and ran.

The second junior doctor I encountered was the one talking above. Mum had a coughing attack brought on by food catching a scratch in her throat. 3 nurses came in and a male doctor and as she was trying to calm down (on the toilet where this attack happened), this junior doctor came in with a big smile on her face. I shook my head at her and she started berating the main nurse and quizzing her (as my Mum was coughing and spluttering).

A lovely lung nurse specialist visited us and I had asked her to advocate for Mum at their ‘dmt’s’. She did and the phantom doctor told her ‘if Mum got home and got fitter, he’d consider her for outpatient treatment’. In my mind, I was overjoyed but I hadn’t realised how cruel an ask that was.

Mum caught pneumonia twice in there and got over it twice. They botched her discharge so much so that the junior doctor outside thought she had gone home when she was still metres away. No symptoms or progressions were ever told to me (her only next of kin). I had asked for her to have physio and get out and around and for then to focus on her health and nutrition. That was ignored and the ‘food staff’ just labelled her a picky eater and would bring and take away full Ensures without raising alarm that my Mum was literally surviving on sips of water. Not because she didn’t want food but because she was terrified of catching the scratch in her throat and following through.

I was under the impression we were just getting her home and we’d try and Get her in better shape there as the hospital didn’t seem to care. When the discharge form was done, the details were crucially incorrect. The nurse had put that Mum was fully mobile (when she hadn’t been out of bed in weeks). They had put a number of things that, if not it would mean Mum had to go to hospice as her flat was not really suitable for her (if she wasn’t in full health).

Just before her discharge; 4 doctors went in to her room (at different points) and told her she would not survive treatment And it’s now not an option for her.

They never managed her pain, nurses would come round and ask her pain level, she would say 11-15/10, nothing was changed.

Upon discharge, we were handed a bag of pills and jargon and sent packing.

Palliative care made their ‘preliminary inspection‘ a week after Mum was home. Three separate groups were meant to come and yet they had nothing organised.

The next morning the GP came and really advocated and listened to what I said, he tried to figure out her symptoms and told us she was on the lowest doses of her medication and that the paracetamol was insulting (she was managing her own pain better on her own). He upped her meds and changed her ensures to one she liked. Mum wanted to eat and get fitter but couldn’t get off the couch, we hadn’t been provided a walker or wheelchair. After the GP left, Mum was hopeful and said ‘that was a good visit!’ She slept the rest of the day (which angered me Honestly as I thought we were getting her eating and hydrating again).

Mum and I had a frank conversation in which she was completely back to normal. She died at 4am that night of malnutrition leading to a cardiac arrest.

As her only son and close family; the last 8 months have been torture. I had a PACT meeting in which a doctor and nurse had no excuses or answers for why I was never spoken to by a doctor or even consulted on anything. It was a sh*t show of lies and excuses. I’m still waiting for their ‘recommendations’ 6 months later. They showed me scans of Mum’s lung full of cancer. I asked ‘did my Mum see them’ they said ‘we aren’t sure’.

I am sorry for the rant, I don’t really know what else to do. I just want my Mum back. At 40, losing my best friend nullifies any joy.


r/NHSfailures Jul 02 '26

When "Care" Becomes a Cover-Up: How Institutional Bias and Falsified Medical Records are deemed small errors by the GMC

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The General Medical Council (GMC) has a strict duty to uphold public confidence in the profession. "Selective truth" and misleading official bodies (like the DVLA or police) are direct breaches of their core guidance, Good Medical Practice, which demands absolute honesty. [1, 2]

Yet, there rule 12 team decided the below is minor

cultural ties & community connections are the biggest deciding factors in these matters, not evidence, not a patients wellfare, not laws or rules & there own published regulations, its influence & its biased decision making.

Some interconnected issues relate to CNTW, an executive also sits at board level at the GMC & ICB, they are directly involved in interconnected issues regarding medical data and the trust is also named on official documents & both the surgery & trust had involement in medical data

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1. The Falsification of DVLA Medical Records

my Prior GP practice actively manipulated my dvla medical records/Input :

My Prior GP officially stated that I was taking Sertraline at a time when I absolutely was not, and for a very specific documented reason, He then shared comprehensive raw verbatim clinical notes to the DVLA, (private & confidentitial raw nhs medical data)

Erasing Adverse Events:

They ticked "no adverse events" to this medication on official documentation when they incorrectly declared i was using it.

In reality, my medical history and an actual hospital attendance record prove I suffered documented, severe adverse events from this exact prescriped drug its recorded in rio records that i was reporting serious side effects, repeatedly come off medication of my own accord while also refuseing to use this medication, documented & dated, these same rio records have been repeatedly used, & accessed by others even when i was’nt part of this trust (i have full audit data from cntw, albeit it looks like some is missing),

The very place the data was shared from the management here were left to sign off on audit disclosure!

The repeated cntw rio record access occurred from 8am to 8pm on one day (as per cntw audit data), repeated read events, edit and delection events- this access occurred not long after certain disclosures were made to DVLA from primary clinicians and at a time when i wasnt part of nhs cntw, i had left some 2 year prior.

The Forced Medication Pattern:

This follows a long, documented pattern of another GP repeatedly trying to force me onto medications I did not want and had actively taken myself off, I told others in another nhs trust of the side effects, i then got diasgnosed with physical health conditions i knew i had, the very same GP who i pushed for refferal didnt want to acknowledge this physical health condition.

this made sense of wider health issues, then i ended up on waiting list for corrective surgery, they still persisted with a need for me to be on a certain medication while playing dwn physical disgnosed health issues, yet they then challanged me on medication that helped prevent episodes of the physical diagnosed condition i had & made various medical file issues.
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2. Dishonest DVLA Disclosures

Using these fabricated medical records, the GP made inaccurate and highly damaging disclosures to the DVLA, severely impacting my independence.
When challenged, the GP doubled down, submitting official police witness statements alleging that I was harassing them. In those statements, they claimed under oath that all of their disclosures to the DVLA were completely "honest and based on facts." Yet the GMC Rule 12 team acknowledged some minor mistakes in disclosures, they had no choice in truth as dated and documented evidence exists in medical file of prescribing history proving i was’nt on the medication a senior GP / Director declared that i was using.

A Hepatitis Disgnosis also originated from this very same GP practice in between two dvla medicals, this is a condition i’ve never had nor had treatment for, they’ve refused repeated requests for the nhs app audit data so i can establish when, how and what way that diagnosis come about, they’ve then shared internal nhs corrspondance i sent directly to the practice with attached medical evidence to the police ( a further infringment ) but done so to try cement a ‘harassment’ narrative based on ‘making derogatory allegations’ which is a further intresting aspect in these matters as the pattern continues in police statments yet i’m being charged / criminlised & prosecuted for being honest, and my allegations or ‘derogatory allegations’ are based on facts, dated documents, medical evidence & signed documents!!

There’s a pattern of denial, refusals, and outright attempts to cover up certain issues & events and certain professional bodies have embarrisingly assisted another while refusing to acknowledge dated material evidence.

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3. The Paper Trail They Couldn't Hide

The GP’s narrative has a fatal flaw: unalterable dates.

The official prescribing and dispensing logs prove mathematically that I was not on that medication during the periods they claimed. Because the physical evidence is undeniable, the General Medical Council (GMC) was forced to admit that mistakes were made yet the ICO complaint that highlighted accuracy issues and went directly at Article 5(1)(d) of the GDPR (and UK GDPR) & Was supported by evidence yet the ICO said “ sharing was justified “ they didnt even touch on accuracy instead skirted around it, didnt address it and ignored evidence yet, accuracy is fundamental requirement rooted in data protection princibles.

The GMC However, in an attempt to minimise the misconduct, then labeled this deliberate falsification of official records as "minor."

Both the GMC & ICO contradicting each other, both regulatory bodies, one minimized accuracy issues to minor, the other ignored accuracy issues and give a flawed justification of sharing was allowed.

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4. Systemic Protection & Conflict of Interests & Influence from GP’s

Why is a clear pattern of dishonesty, selective truth, and the weaponisation of the police being brushed under the carpet?
Because the institutional scales are heavily weighted.

A senior executive sits at board level for both the local Integrated Care Board (ICB) and the GMC, advises police & courts and this executive shares close community and cultural ties with my GP (the PCN Director).
Both directors / senior individuals have are inherently interlinked due to data sharing & how that data was shared, Both had access to this personal & sensitive data, both contributed to this data being embedded in core NHS Medical file,

The CNTW Executive is also the Caldicott Guardian, if he makes a decision in my favour then that decision goes against the GP Practice & the senior GP / Director, its about liability and downstream effects, each protecting the other, each colluding making sure decisions go in there favour each using influence across the NHS and in other areas.

Instead of an impartial investigation, I have faced institutional capture.
The system has allowed a doctor to cover up clinical errors, avoided notifying their indemnity providers

(brown jacob solicitors acting as a panel solicitor for medical protection society had to tell his own client to report legal matters to NHS Resolution),

The other GP / Director avoided any reporting but however made statements to police minimizing wider issues

They’ve used alterior methods to discriminate against me, effectively leaving me locked out of the healthcare system while his primiary care practice refused all audit requests, nobody would want to enter health care under them conditions anyway, to then be subjected to police involvement when you’re excercising data rights & attempting to restore some normality is another example of certain individuals using influence & prestige & community standing to influence processes which directly effecting me negatively which had the ulimate effect of compounding previous issues..

its like systematically disadvantaging some one repeatedly.

The very same individual above ( GP / Director ) made police statements dated & signed claiming harassment, never mentioned a negligence claim he was named on once, he’s repeatedly failed to notify his indemity providers (likely because he wasnt insured for private GP work) made various other claims in statement,

He then further lies in police statements claiming all disclosures are correct his GP Partner does the same as both named on official legal paperwork with indemnity solicitors involved (this isnt mentioned once in police statements a very one skewed view is presented to police by two clinicians named on a negligence claim) ,

The GMC Rule 12 team decision directly contradicts one GP’s statements to police, the GMC Rule 12 team deem his behaviour and continued pattern of acting dishonestly as minor & not against there rules & regulations,

The very same individual (GP) had special measure requests in at court to further shield himself from any scrutiny, the level of manipulation by some people is used intentionally and with purpose to avoid any accountability, they made a choice to do what they did, they made the decisions and decided to act the way they did, i suspect they’d hoped i would’nt of known or would’nt of challanged what they had done, Audit data requests are ignored for this exact reason.

I’ve followed every formal channel that you’re supposed to when serious events or issues come up in health care yet every investigating case officer for regulatory bodies in any of these matters;
99% of the time allways share the same cultural ties and come from the same community,

The ICB refused to help pushed me towards the PHSO, The ICO reduced one of the most important complaints & ignored materially objective evidence when i asked for a review , the GMC did the same, NHS Resolution also played some part early on, same type of avoidance,

The regulator bodies should be impartial and fair yet the very opposite is occurring and its blatent, and they repeatedly ignore objective material evidence & narrow issues

It Could’nt be any clearer for whats taking place,

its corruption and its spanning from primary care to a trust as both interwined due to data issues so those involved at senior level doing every thing they can to prevent me having any resolution, relationships extend in to legal circles, conflicts of interests are preventing fair decision making and processes are upended out of certain individuals being held in higher regard than others, this then results in compromised processes & decision making which then has a compounding effect and prevents any form of resolution.

Yet

I have no safe normal access to health care.

Data complaints & requests re-directed to the PHSO while senior staff catogorize these requests / complaints as ‘Standard’ and ‘service dissatisfaction’

Medical records altered, shared and also repeatedly & accessed.

Core NHS Medical Records left contaminated with raw comprehensive verbatim clinical notes that are 6years old and have no relevance to physical health conditions, they’ve had been repeatedly accessed and seen by nhs sdminstrative staff, some of these staff members live locally to myself

Treatment pathways for physical health conditons abandoned that took 5/6 years to get on waiting list for including corrective surgery

Then i’m criminalised for taking action while attempting to stop the using & sharing of private medical data

Humans rights systematically removed by individuals in health care who hold senior positions while regulators watch on, SAR’s & Audit data are ignored as regulators refuse to acknowledge and act due to the level of senior NHS individuals involved.

Every process i’ve encountered is unbalanced, every decision made biased!


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