I died at @ChelwestFT only 6 days old. I was not given oxygen or emergency care until my lactate was 15.9, 10h later. NHS made full admission of liability.
Hayden would have turned 9 years old today.
Nine years on, the circumstances of his death is now correctly recorded after a second inquest found that neglect at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital had caused his death.
Update:
Earlier this year the High Court granted us permission to judicially review the GMC’s decision to cancel Dr Jonathan Penny’s MPTS tribunal and/or not consider the issuing of a warning.
The GMC have flip flopped for a third time will no longer defend the judicial review.
@BBCMBuchanan
Coroner found “Dr Penny also
accepted that “with hindsight” he should have acted differently in a
number of ways although, in my view, the need for greater action on his
part should have been obvious prospectively given what was known or
ought to have been known at the time.”
Was in the High Court (again) yesterday and was granted permission - on all grounds) - to judicially review the GMC’s decision to withdraw the referral of Dr Jonathan Penny to a medical practitioner’s tribunal.
@JusticeForHBN
Just a reminder that Westminster Coroner’s Court / Coroner Fiona Wilcox / Coroner Shirley Radcliffe colluded with NHS legal to coverup gross medical failures. This was likely routine for them.
We ventilated Hayden’s case wherever we could and fought it legally when we could but there will be many other cases swept under the carpet.
@SmirkyRadcliffe Thanks to Hayden, the conduct of a Coroner and the sufficiency of inquiry are both matters over which Coroners and public bodies cannot run roughshod.
@JusticeForHBN
https://t.co/ZdpkozNwRn
@SmirkyRadcliffe Due to Hayden’s case, it’s now established law that Coroners need to conduct themselves in a proper manner.
We hope this will protect families in the future from being re-traumatised like we were.
The High Court found that Coroner Shirley Radcliffe (@SmirkyRadcliffe) was “unwise”, “close to intemperate” and that some of her questioning was “close to the borderline of robustness and unacceptability”.
Due to the grotesque manner in which the first inquest was conducted and the absolute lies that were recorded, I set my mind to ensuring Shirley Radcliffe’s own findings were “removed from the record”.
Disgustingly, Shirley Radcliffe facilitated an apology to neglectful Dr Jonathan Penny in front of us. She smirked with pleasure when doing so.
Imagine experiencing this at your son’s own inquest. Imagine how it undermines trust in Medicine, the Judiciary and Government.
The findings and Coroner Travers’ approach are in stark contrast to original inquest and Coroners.
The original Coroners from Westminster Coroner’s Court (Dr Fiona Wilcox and Dr Shirley Radcliffe) asked the hospital to rewrite their critical SUI report so as to water down criticisms.
“I also find that the failures, which persisted over a number of hours during which Hayden was increasingly unwell, were serious and ‘gross’. Dr Conway considered that the care provided fell very seriously below acceptable standards and I agree.”
“Dr Penny also accepted that ‘with hindsight’ he should have acted differently in a number of ways although, in my view, the need for greater action on his part should have been obvious prospectively given what was known or ought to have been known at the time”
“Throughout, there was an absence of proper Consultant-led management of
Hayden’s care, with insufficient recognition of the seriousness of his condition and treatment of it, an insufficient level of observations and monitoring, and a lack of compliance with the hospital’s paediatric early warning system policy.”