A GP in the Grampian NHS Board Area - complaint was from a woman (Mrs C) who claimed that her late husband (Mr C)'s general practitioner (GP) was responsible for his death because of his incorrect diagnosis and inadequate standard of care at several telephone and face-to-face consultations between December 2003 and February 2004.
Health
A Dental Practitioner in the Lothian NHS Board Area - complaint was from a woman (referred to in this report as Ms C) who claimed that her dentist (the dentist) had failed to provide her with dental bridgework which was identical to her original teeth as had been promised and agreed. The complaint which I have investigated concerned the dentist’s failure to provide dental bridgework to an acceptable standard.
Forth Valley NHS Board - complaint was from a woman (referred to in this report as Mrs C) about the service she had received in 2002 and 2003 from the Department of Dynamic Psychotherapy of Forth Valley NHS Board's Primary Care Operating Division (previously known as Forth Valley Primary Care NHS Trust) and about the Division's handling of her complaint.
Lothian NHS Board - complaint was from a man (referred to in this report as Mr C) on behalf of his wife (Mrs C) about one of Lothian NHS Board's (the Board) hospitals in caring for and treating her problems following the delivery of their son in January 2005.
Tayside NHS Board - complaint was from a man (referred to in this report as Mr C) about the death of his wife, Mrs C, in a hospital of Tayside NHS Board's (the Board) Acute Services Division (the Division) in March 2005.
Fife NHS Board - The complainant raised a number of issues regarding her treatment and care following the stillbirth of her son.
A GP Practice in the Forth Valley NHS Board Area - complaint was from a man (referred to in this report as Mr C) about the decisions of two GPs in a GP practice (the Practice) to prescribe the drug diclofenac for his late aunt, Miss C, and then to give it on repeat prescription.
Lothian NHS Board - complaint was from a woman (referred to in this report as Mrs C) about the care and treatment of her daughter (referred to in this report as Miss A) by the Royal Edinburgh Hospital (REH) in the period from November 1998 to March 2003. Miss A was then 19 and her pre-eminent condition was severe anorexia nervosa. Sadly, Miss A’s condition continued to worsen and she died in September 2004 (aged 20). Shortly afterwards Mrs C brought additional complaints to the Ombudsman’s office about Miss A’s ongoing treatment from March 2003 until her death, all of which care was funded and under the overall clinical governance of Lothian NHS Board (the Board).
Complaint about Lothian NHS Board, University Hospitals Division - 1. On 31 July 2003 my office received a complaint from a woman (referred to in this report as Mrs C) against Lothian University Hospitals NHS Trust about the care and treatment her late daughter (Ms C) received at the Western General Hospital (WGH) in Edinburgh. Mrs C was also dissatisfied at the outcome of an Independent Review Panel (IRP) into her original complaint.
Complaint about a GP Practice in the Forth Valley NHS Board area - complaint was from a woman (referred to in this report as Ms C) about the care and treatment which she received from her local medical practice (the Practice) prior to her diagnosis with breast cancer.