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Patient 'was harmed by urology head of department'


Family calls for action against FGH urology consultant




An incident involving a man with a single kidney who had to be taken to intensive care in 2016 because of errors allegedly made by Muhammad Naseem has come to light following an FOI request I made.

The response reveals UHMBT didn't carry out a Root Cause Analysis after the patient was not immediately taken to theatre despite having an infected, obstructed kidney. 

Fortunately Peter Duffy became aware of the case and operated on the man as an emergency.  

The case shows worrying similarities with the circumstances surrounding the deaths of Irene Erhart in 2011 and Peter Read in 2015. 

Peter Read's family said:



“We continue to demand that action is taken against both these consultants. We’re aware Mr Jain has returned to surgery and understand he is being supervised by a doctor junior to himself. When will something be done?

“It is utterly disgraceful that more than a year after dad’s death, when everyone in urology - and the trust, knew that failing to treat an infected, obstructed kidney contributed to his death, this was allowed to happen yet again.
“Despite trust bosses knowing what happened, they did not carry out an investigation.
"This is a clear disregard for public safety and the trust’s apparent claim that they learn from mistakes.
“They clearly didn’t learn after Irene Erhart (a woman from Walney who died in 2011 in another similar case) and now it seems they didn’t learn after dad’s death.
"The GMC should have been made aware of this and we wonder if the patient himself was even made aware of the significance of the mistake."

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