‘Hospital gave us two death certificates to cover us to cover their mistake’

A person’s family who was issued with two death certificates, after a heart process, he says that the hospital covered him what happened to him.

Brian Homes died near plow, in Castle Hill Hospital, which BBC revealed last month In many deaths, a police was at the center of investigation.

The hospital amended its statement to remove the reference to the operation. His daughter Lisa Jones said that she believes that Medix did so to cover “what happened really what happened”.

The NHS Trust running the hospital said it could not comment on personal matters, but “it is not uncommon for amendment after discussion with the coroner officer for a death certificate”.

Castle Hill, including TAVI processes between 2019 and 2023, including Shri Holmes, led to 11 deaths. The BBC understands that six people have died since last July after passing through the operation.

The hospital mortality is above the national average.

Used instead of open-mortar surgery, a tavi-or transcatator aortic valve involves inserting a new valve through a plastic tube through a blood vessel, often in the waist. The tube guides the new valve to the heart and replaces the damaged one.

The process, which usually lives between one and two hours, is usually performed under local anesthetic and mainly performed on chronic patients.

Last month, the BBC revealed that the Hambarside police was investigating Tawi service in Castle Hill amidst evidence that patients died after medical complications that were kept from their relatives.

An experienced army veteran Mr. Holmes, in 2019, was shaken by Castle to pass through a tawi.

74 -year -old his wife Susan told the BBC, “He thought it would be his new man.” However, the process went wrong.

“They told us that Tawi was stuck, and then my husband went to the theater and bypassed the heart. Then he became hemorrhage, and he was going back to the theater again. He was fighting for his life,” he said.

It was a 73 -year -old unfortunately lost battle, and died several days later.

“As far as we knew, he had done everything right, and it was one of those things,” Smt Holmes said.

But like other families, the BBC has talked about the hospital service in Castle Hill in recent weeks, the understanding of Holmes was not accurate because the hospital had chosen them not to disclose the details.

The BBC has seen a review of an unpublished Royal College of Physician (RCP), which has been commissioned by the hospital in 11 Tawi deaths. It is excited about the care obtained by Shri Holmes.

The review classified his treatment plan and implementation as very poor care – the lowest grading – rated as poor with all other stages of care.

It reads: “In every stage of the patient’s path, a bad clinical decision, Tavi’s incorrect state which can be avoided better and the death certification failed to accurately reflect factors contributing to the patient’s death.”

Instead of getting trapped by Tavi, as the family reported, the review suggests that it was kept very above wrongly. When Medix released the valve, it went into the aorta, a blood vessel in the heart. Effective attempts were made to move the valve before deciding to perform emergency cardiac surgery, including completely removal of Tavi.

“Shocking, absolutely shocking,” Mrs. Holmes sat in her garden in a plow, with her two daughters. “The hospital never told us any of it.”

48 -year -old Ms. Jones said, “They have covered everything – they have not told us anything.”

After the death of Mr. Holmes, the family went to register his death with the death certificate provided by the hospital. However, there was a problem in the Registry Office – the family is not clear what it was – and they were told that they had to go back to Castle. He was then released with another death certificate, stating that the primary cause of his death was pneumonia and severe aortic stenosis, a blocked heart valve.

RCP critics saw the original death certificate, stating that Mr. Holmes died of pneumonia and a failed Tawi.

The review team did not consider the second Death Certificate, not mentioning Tawi, “there was an accurate details of the cause of the patient’s death”. There was no evidence of referral for the coroner, the couple.

Ms. Jones said that the family did not change the certificate of death until the BBC showed her a review.

“When this was the first time you can’t think of it because you are unhappy, so we thought they did something wrong with the death certificate,” he said. ,[But] They took it back because they knew what happened. “He accused the hospital of using another” to cover him that actually happened to my father “.

“It’s very upset to find out what is going on,” Your sister, Mary Holmes, 52 says, “I always know behind my mind that something was not right.”

The Trust, who runs the Castle Hill Hospital of Hamber Health Partnership, said it would not comment on an individual case “It is not uncommon for amending the death certificate after a discussion with the coroner officer”.

After the BBC story last month, seven families have directed a law firm, Hudgel Solicitor to work on their behalf.

The firm said that its first task was to understand what happened to each family, including whether the inquiry was conducted or needed to be re -opened.

“The hospital is saying that the lesson is learned,” said Neil Hudgel. “Well, you have not disclosed the Royal College report, can you mark your own homework? How do we know that you have learned your lessons?”

The board papers published last month show that the hospital is working with the “a group of deaths” in Tawi Seva. The BBC understands that it refers to the six deaths of patients who passed through a TAVI process between July 2024 and March 2025.

The figures provided by the trust show its mortality for the entire 2024 and the first six months of 2025 were 2.2%; The latest available UK-wide mortality is 1.3%. The NHS Trust stated that “the mortality data for any procedure at the local level vary continuously and can uplift”.

Both Care Quality Commission and NHS England knew about problems with TAVI service in Castle Hill.

CQC said, “concerns about TAVI service are known to us”, while Trust NHS has been a matter of increased monitoring by England.

When asked that families were informed about the problems to ensure that the families were informed about the problems, the organization provided any evidence.

NHS England stated that it “could not comment due to police investigation”, while CQC stated that in 2022 he underwent inadequate surgery for safety in 2022 “due to significant patient safety concerns”. ,