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LETTERS TO MISCELLANEOUS DESTINATIONS
7th January 2002
Mr DD Ahir JP
Member West Mercia Probation Board
Community advisor (CAB)
Dear Mr Ahir,
Regarding suspension of Dr Raj Mattu
It was a pleasure to have met you at your group meeting recently and receiving the opportunity to discuss the appalling situation at our NHS Trust and the plight of Dr Mattu.
It is clear that having spoken out for patient safety, Dr Mattu has been victimised intensely for whistle blowing, and equally distasteful, he has been subjected to racial discrimination.
I hope you will agree that the prejudice that the Trust Management has manifest is totally unacceptable and must be challenged and addressed in the strongest terms available.
I therefore call on your help with this issue and look forward to your support in ensuring that the victimisation of Dr Mattu is brought to an end and that natural justice is done.
I feel very strongly about zero tolerance of racism in modern British Society, and expect the perpetrators (worryingly in senior public office) to be addressed in the firmest manner, and prevented from subjecting any further victims to such suffering under our auspices.
Yours sincerely,
MR BRIAN KING
19th June 2003
Bevan Ashford Solicitors
Birmingham
Dear Sir/ Madam,
I received your letter from your Birmingham Offices today, dated 17 June 2003, but postmarked from Bristol.
I note Mr Stoten's claim about the case of Dr Mattu "His only knowledge about the case is as a result of stories which have appeared in the media and so are in the public domain."
I am unclear as to why you have written to me. Could you please confirm whether you are acting on formal instruction from Mr Stoten or the University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust.
Yours sincerely,
Mr S Nahar
Cc: As previously
24th July 2003
Dr Peter Mulrooney
Chairman Senior Hospital Medical Staff Committee
Walsgrave Hospital
Dear Dr Mulrooney,
I read the Coventry Evening Telegraph of 3rd July, and was disturbed by the substance of the report. It is regrettable that highly trained specialists with about 20 years of experience, such as yourself, are working under such appalling conditions of fear and oppression from the senior management. Members of the public, the local stakeholders, realise your decision to resign from your position must have been difficult and traumatic. I would imagine that this must also be very hard on your family. These worrying events alarm every local stakeholder that I have spoken to.
You will certainly be aware of my role within the local community's fight for justice for Dr Mattu, and for an investigation into his wrongful suspension and mistreatment. I noted your comments about serious violations of procedure and the dreadful failure by the Trust to follow due process. Although such facts are not unknown to us, your personal observations are extremely important, as they strongly reinforce our knowledge. Your remarks about a conspiracy by the management to get rid of Dr Mattu, substantiate our long expressed concerns about the blatant vindictive campaign against Dr Mattu and the obvious discrimination he has suffered. We have uncovered horrendous acts by Trust managers and staff, including their strategy to defame Dr Mattu and impugn his character by generating and encouraging complaints against him.
You will surely be aware that during the last fortnight two further senior consultants, Mr J Diver (ENT Surgeon) and Dr Jill Rubython (A&E), resigned due to an oppressive management that impeded them from delivering good health care, and the conspiracy against Dr Mattu that you reported. Coventry healthcare will definitely be worse off without you, as undoubtedly far less experienced and able replacements will arrive. That is if a replacement can be found at all. We know that during the last six months the Heart Department has advertised widely, but still failed to attract even a single good candidate, and has not appointed a 6th Cardiologist. Such failure to bring top clinicians into Coventry is not unique to Cardiology. The local community is suffering as a direct consequence of this crisis, worsened by the management enforcing resignations of three able and highly valuable consultants. Before your departure, the local community desperately needs help from you and your colleagues to halt any further damage to local care from our dysfunctional and suspect Management, and to prevent the gross injustice against Dr Mattu.
Yours sincerely,
Brian King
For The Dr Raj Mattu Reinstatement Committee
Cc: T Blair, I Duncan-Smith, C Kennedy, Dr J Reid, Dr Liam Fox, R Ainsworth, G Robinson, J Cunningham, A King, W Olner, M O'Brien, C Spellman, J Plaskitt, J Maples, Trust Board, Councillors, Parliamentary Business Unit, Sir Nigel Crisp, Dr Jill Rubython, Mr J Diver
