Latest E-mail Sent To Sir Nigel Crisp On 12th November 2003
From: Ian Perkin [ianperkin@blueyonder.co.uk] Sent: 12 November 2003 11:06 To: 'David.McNeil@doh.gsi.gov.uk' Cc: 'Peter.Homa@stgeorges.nhs.uk'; 'julie.dent@swlha.nhs.uk'; 'john.bacon@doh.gsi.gov.uk' Subject: RE: Outpatient Waiting List Figures
Dear Sir Nigel
I was somewhat surprised to received your e-mail informing me, that you wish me to pass on the information that I have about wrong doing at St George's and the wider NHS to your investigation team. The e-mail that I sent you on the 8th July this year and to which you have never replied, made it clear that I asked you to set up an independent investigation into the matters I had previously raised with you. As I had made clear to you, it was totally inappropriate of you to suggest that I send my evidence to the South West London Strategic Health Authority, when it was clear from the evidence given by Ian Hamilton, under oath at my Employment Tribunal and from a letter that Julie Dent the Chief Executive sent me, that she and James McAullife the Finance Director of that authority had played a part in the areas that need to be investigated. More importantly as you already know, when I commenced defamation proceedings against Melvyn Esterman the South West London Health Authority decided to act on Mr Esterman's behalf, so that it would have been totally inappropriate of me to send them any information at all. If you have now decided to appoint as I requested an independent QC to investigate these matters, I shall of course be happy to cooperate with the investigation and supply the detailed written information that I have which demonstrates wrong doing in the NHS. If you have set up an investigation on this basis, I should be grateful if you could supply me with contact details so that I can forward the relevant information without delay. Having been suspended myself by the NHS when I was accused of "having a poor management" style. I trust you can assure me that the NHS will be suspending from the NHS, those individuals who have much more serious allegations outstanding against them, while the necessary investigations are completed. Because of the difficulties I have experienced getting the NHS to conduct an independent investigation into these matters in the past I reserve the right to make the correspondence that passes between us public.
Yours sincerely Ian Perkin