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Gardener in agony after knee surgery |
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29 July 2008 |
A gardener is set to take legal action because he says an operation at a Derbyshire treatment centre has left him in agony.
Keith Wardman, 63, was told the operation would cure his nagging knee problems, but now he is in constant pain.
A gardener is set to take legal action because he says an operation at a Derbyshire treatment centre has left him in agony.
Keith Wardman, 63, was told the operation would cure his nagging knee problems, but now he is in constant pain. He is on the waiting list for a knee replacement at Derbyshire Royal Infirmary and says he wishes he had never gone to the Barlborough clinic.
Barlborough is an independent sector treatment centre (ISTC), contracted to perform orthopaedic operations on NHS patients, and was already being sued over two problem operations. It was after reading the news that Mr Wardman began to question his own treatment at the centre.
Mr Wardman's GP referred him to a surgeon at Ilkeston community hospital and he was told he would need an operation to replace his knee joint, but in the meantime he takes up to 16 tablets a day to control the pain.
Surgeons in Derby hospitals have had to correct a number of operations performed at the Barlborough. Last year, a surgeon working for the Derby Hospitals NHS Trust wrote to Barlborough's medical director saying he had personally performed revision surgery on three knee replacements originally performed at Barlborough, at a cost of |
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