As requested... A number of patients/families have asked me to publish the following from a campaigner which can be used as a template to send to health secretary Matthew Hancock. Emails can be sent via this link: https://contactus.dh.gov.uk/ FAO Matthew Hancock, Secretary of State for Health: As a patient/relative of a patient let down by the service provided by certain members of the urology department at the University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust I am writing to you to express my support for the call for a public inquiry which you have received from four of our MPs. For 19 years now the trust has been aware of clinical errors caused by three consultant urologists within the department. Mistakes include two patients who suffered renal failure, one who had a testicle removed, one who almost had the wrong (non-cancerous) kidney removed and mistakes which contributed to the deaths of Irene Erhart and Peter Read. One o...
This blog tells the story of my investigation into the urology department at UHMBT... from my first contact with whistle-blower Peter Duffy in August 2018 right up to the present day - AMY FENTON, REPORTER