Medication compensation?

[ArnoldBee]

My DH has just found out that the damage that his liver was caused by a medication that he was given in the past. No-one had ever told him - he only found out as he was given a print out by his GP for his urgent referral to cardiology. He's on various medications with his health issues and pretty much has been experimented on for the past 30 years as he is beyond current medical science.

There is nothing that can be done to heal his liver other than monitoring for the rest of his life.

His liver function is impacted by this damage which does impact on his everyday life.

I don't need opinions on the morals of suing the nhs as that's a moral question for him to consider for himself.

I just couldn't tell by googling if this was even a possibility?

If PIP has been denied, I hope you went to a tribunal, OP.

The DWP are a nightmare for this.

Ah, so you've found it?

Ok, but you don't have this note, and neither of you can remember what medication it is....are you actually paying attention to what you are saying?

Did you ever find the name of the drug, OP?

Yes its flecainide acetate.

Did you find the reference to it on your husband's notes, where it said the flecainide caused his liver disease?

Yes he went to the doctors on Friday now he's not got covid.

But do you have the actual note that says it caused his liver damage?

Yes

Hi OP.
What does it actually say?
Also, does your husband want to pursue compensation?

2015 Liver damage caused by Flecanide Acetate.

He says hes not interested.

Can you post it on here, anonymised obviously. You've put other photos of the reports earlier in the thread.
It's really hard to answer your question without seeing the evidence you have.

That's literally all it says as a print out on one sheet. My 10 year old could have typed it up!

That doesn't make sense at all. Is it an official NHS letter / document? Do you mean you have a document with his name / NHS number and then just one sentence?
I work in the NHS and I have never seen a document that would have one single line and literally nothing else. It has to have other info surely for context?

No nothing at all no official letter with an explanation or evidence of where this has come from.

Well I guess that it hasn't come from a doctor or a clinic then, it doesn't sound genuine so theres no evidence that the drug has caused the damage at all.

So it hasn't got his name, date of birth, hospital number and so on, on the piece of paper?
It doesn't sound very official.
How could this possibly be regarded as proof that this medication caused anything?

No it's just a print out of his conditions from the GP.

I know what you mean, DD’s online records have a list of sentences like this. But at some point a more detailed letter will have come from somewhere to the GP, and someone at the GP surgery has just typed that sentence into the records. But the original letter will be somewhere and that will have more detail.

Probably but as things stand it's not quoted in our letters we hold and the GP receptionist couldn't see anything else.

You (he) need to formally request his medical records, not sure if there may be a cost involved.

This is like pulling teeth.
Where did he see it?

I suspect something that may have been suggested as a possibility has been transcribed as literal fact . Not a definitive diagnosis in itself.

That's literally what he thinks and as he's had such a long list of drugs over the years he's at peace with it all.

So actually, your claim that there was a definite mention in your DH's notes that flecainide caused liver damage is just a bit of guesswork on your part.

It's lucky your DH doesn't want to try and get compensation, in that case.