The is is the letter that I was sent the day before I had a nine hour operation on Sept 13th 2016 so that I wouldn't receive it until I came home. The letter basically states it is removing any support I had been allocated which was necessary giving the magnitude of the operation and post operative complications. I contracted bilateral pneumonia the following day and had to be rushed to another hospital which could deal with the sort of breathing problems I had.
Now a compassionate response would have been to put short term urgent care needs in place - not remove services altogether and fabricate a number of reasons why they couldn't/wouldn't/shouldn't do so. None of them are applicable to putting short term urgent care needs in. Following a solicitor's letter sent some six weeks later, the local authority did an about turn and did, indeed, offer me this by which time I was sufficiently recovered not to need them.
Now a compassionate response would have been to put short term urgent care needs in place - not remove services altogether and fabricate a number of reasons why they couldn't/wouldn't/shouldn't do so. None of them are applicable to putting short term urgent care needs in. Following a solicitor's letter sent some six weeks later, the local authority did an about turn and did, indeed, offer me this by which time I was sufficiently recovered not to need them.