1st June 2009 Monitor was informed of the histopathology allegations by John Savage during a routine telephone call. John Savage had known about them for at least a year as he was copied on the 15th June 2008 letter to Graham Rich. Yet neither thought it necessary to inform Monitor as a Foundation Trust regulator. UBHT became a Foundation Trust on 1st June 2008 and was thereafter known as UHB.
http://www.healthpolicyinsight.com/?q=node/736 Daphne Havercroft, September 2010
UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS BRISTOL NHS FOUNDATION TRUST (UHB, formerly UBHT) HISTOPATHOLOGY INQUIRY INTO ALLEGATIONS OF MISDIAGNOSIS
Three questions inform this timeline: - What did they know? - When did they know about it? - What did they do about it?
The Cast
Mary Barnes, Director, Avon, Somerset and Wiltshire Cancer Services Network (ASWCS) Ruth Brunt, Acting Chief Executive North Bristol NHS Trust (NBT), formerly Operations Director, NBT Sir Ian Carruthers OBE, Chief Executive NHS South West Murray Cochrane, Associate Director of Strategic Services NHS South West Mike Durkin, Medical Director NHS South West Deborah Evans, Chief Executive NHS Bristol, a witness at the Bristol Royal Infirmary Heart Inquiry. Deborah Lee, UHB Director of Corporate Development (on secondment), formerly Co-Director of Commissioning, NHS Bristol, formerly a Governor of UHB, Acting Chief Executive NHS Bristol at the end of 2007 Rhona MacDonald, Former Chief Executive NHS Bath & North East Somerset & former Chair of the Board, ASWCS Lisa Manson, Associate Director of Performance, NHS South West Sonia Mills, Former Chief Executive NBT, now Chief Executive NHS Oxfordshire Andrew Millward, Director of Communications and Corporate Services, NHS South West Kieran Morgan, Former Joint Director Public Health, NHS Bath & North East Somerset, a witness at the Bristol Royal Infirmary Heart Inquiry Martin Morse, Former Medical Director NBT John Murdoch, Lead Gynaecological Oncological Surgeon UHB Geoff Pye, Medical Director ASWCS Graham Rich, Former Chief Executive UHB John Savage, Chair of the Board UHB Jonathan Sheffield, Medical Director UHB David Tappin, Former Director of Strategic Development NBT, now performing the same role at NHS Bristol Geoff Upton, Strategic Service Change Manager NHS South West Richard Weatherhead, Chair of Bristol PCT
Statements in italics starting âDL:â are taken from a response to a Freedom of Information Request that includes a timeline headed âUHB Pathology Issuesâ produced by Deborah Lee on 12th March 2009, covering the period 22nd July 2008 to 3rd March 2009 inclusive. Ms Lees last entry of 3rd March 2009 says âDL admits defeat and escalates to Chief Executivesâ.
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