needing help with mums doctor and nurses

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Our mother was diagnosed as having COPD by Dr Pallav Shah at the Chelsea and

Westminster hospital, London. She was doing quite well with the treatment he

prescribed, we got her moved here to Maidstone from London, so that I could look

after her as she is 73 years old. She was asked to attend an appointment at her

new doctors surgery with the nurse who did some tests and told her that she

in-fact did not have COPD and she withdrew one of her inhalers, over the next

few months my mother struggled on getting worse and worse. When my mother asked

well why can i not breath the nurse replied i dont know dont you know why?? (

the impication was her weight). The nurse had a wry smile on her face as she

said it. This upset my mother very much.

In the end my sister and I made an appointment with the GP. who has now told us

that Dr Pallav Shah at the Chelsea and Westminster did diagnose this condition.

We are very very angry the the NURSE is allowed to withdraw medication from

patients that has been prescribed by a top consultant in the condition she has.

Now it emerges that she has something wrong with her left lung, the gp found

something on the x-ray that could be cancer, or could be that the lung has

partially died because she was not adaquactly medicated.

Now we find the GP is telling us lies, he told my sister via a telephone

converstation last week the referal letter was going out that week, up until

today the letter has still not gone. The secretary told my sister today every

referal is urgent, therefore hers is no different to a bunion.

I am at a loss as to what to do.

Please can someone advise me where to go next.

Luv

Carol