Email sent to NHS Fife Patient Relations, copied in to my MSP Willie Rennie and MP Wendy Chamberlain:
Strapline: concerns about Dr McQuitty, Ravenscraig Ward, Whytemans Brae Hospital, Kirkcaldy
"Hello
I
am writing to raise concerns about my son's treatment in Ravencraig
Ward, Whyteman's Brae, Kirkcaldy, in particular about his locum
Consultant Psychiatrist Dr Luke McQuitty.
I
am concerned that Dr McQuitty does not have the required experience to
competently make judgements about my son Daniel's mental ill health and
is suggesting he be discharged when my son isn't well enough. Dr
McQuitty should be discussing my son's discharge with me as I'm his
Carer and my son lives in my house. He should not be telling my son he
can come home if I do not think my son is well enough to be home. That
is raising false expectations and causing discord between my son and I.
It's unprofessional and unhelpful.
My
son has a bipolar disorder diagnosis as well as a lung condition which
meant he was socially isolating for most of the lockdown year of the
pandemic, and this resulted in his mental health deteriorating. I did
take him home from Ravenscraig Ward last week when he said he wanted
home, a doctor discharged him, but he wasn't well, got agitated and
angry, so much that I had to call the Police out, as I was fearful. He
was experiencing flashbacks from his previous inpatient stay in
Stratheden Hospital where he was unreasonably treated in the locked
seclusion room of the old IPCU, February 2012, for which I won an
apology from NHS Fife after raising a complaint with the Ombudsman. So
my son Daniel was in a rage due to this and I asked the police to take
my son to his brother in Dundee, to see if he could get hospital
treatment in Carseview, out of Fife, where he had such a negative
experience in 2012:
However
Carseview was full up and it also required the Consultants' agreement
for my son Daniel to be treated out of Fife and this did not happen, he
was returned to Ravenscraig and Dr McQuitty. I believe that my son
would be better treated in a psychiatric ward out of Fife after his very
negative experience in 2012 when he was locked in a dark seclusion room
with a broken hand untreated, for hours on end and had to defecate on
the floor, then was punished for it.
It
is not good for my son's mental wellbeing to be stressed in Ravenscraig
Ward and I keep hearing him swearing to me on the phone, and when I
visited him last week. He was very agitated and aggressive. This is
not like him and I am concerned that his treatment in Ravenscraig Ward
is making him worse not better. I cannot agree to my son coming home in
such a heightened, agitated state, it's not safe for him to be
discharged when so unwell. And it's not safe for me either.
I hope that my concerns will be listened to, and addressed,
Yours sincerely, Chrys