Request To Sir Nigel Crisp That Action Be Taken Against John Parkes & Julie Dent
From: Ian Perkin [ianperkin@blueyonder.co.uk]
Sent: 17 October 2004 14:13
To: 'nigel.crisp@doh.gsi.gov.uk'
Cc: 'David.McNeil@doh.gsi.gov.uk'; 'james.cochrane@swlha.nhs.uk'; 'Julie.Dent@swlha.nhs.uk';
'DAVEYE@parliament.uk'
Subject: Sissling Report
Dear Sir Nigel
The Sissling report is to be published this coming Tuesday 19th October 2004, into the allegations that I made to you about wrong doing at St Georges nearly two years ago. As the report states that my allegations about the deliberate and improper alteration of cancelled operations data by John Parkes is proven and that St George's was wrong in having offered a variety of excuses for the error occurring I am writing to ask if you would confirm to me in writing that you will be ensuring that in line with your public statements ("A zero tolerance approach is to be introduced for managers who fiddle waiting lists" ) Mr Parkes will be removed from his current position as a Chief Executive of the Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust.
In addition given that Mrs Julie Dent the Chief Executive of the South West London Strategic Health Authority wrote to me on the 29th January 2003 Mrs Dent wrote to me and stated, "Ian Hamilton informed me of the issues that you had raised in relation to waiting list reporting procedures. I discussed with him the action that the Trust had taken and have been kept informed of the Trust's subsequent actions in this regard". Given that Mrs Dent is the Chief Executive of the South West London Strategic Health Authority, the very body charged with arranging for the Sissling Investigation to have taken place and the body to whom it is reporting, it seems to me that this written acknowledgement that she was aware of both the issues and the action that the Trust was taking, puts her in an impossible position. My Member of Parliament Edward Davey has already previously called for Mrs Dent to resign and I am now writing you to endorse that call in the light of the findings of the Sissling Investigation
I should inform you that I am making this communication between us public and will be drawing attention to the fact that despite being a proven NHS "whistle-blower" you and the NHS have rendered me no assistance at all and have allowed senior NHS employees to come forward and lie when giving evidence under oath to get me dismissed from my employment after thirty two years unblemished service in public sector finance. If action is not now taken against Mr Parkes and Mrs Dent it will speak volumes about the NHS that exists under your management and the fact that you wish to discourage NHS employees from speaking the truth about individuals who lie, cheat and cover up.
Yours sincerely
Ian Perkin