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Irish Independent
22-07-2025
- Sport
- Irish Independent
€21k raised for Kerry community hospital after successful Iveragh Vintage day
It was the first event without the renowned community man, who was just 61, when he tragically passed away earlier this year after suffering a brain haemorrhage while attending his uncle's funeral. Prior to his death, he and the club had nominated the local hospital St Anne's Community Hospital in Cahersiveen as a beneficiary for this year funds from the club's annual field day. Having spent his last days at the hospital his wife Brenda wanted this year's event in Waterville to raise as much money as possible for the hospital and she certainly fulfilled her wish as more than €21,000 has been raised. The community and the club joined forces to make this year's event bigger and better than ever before and with such a wonderful display of vintage machinery on display huge crowds attended. Local businesses, including the two Centra shops, supplied a host of treats and local members of the ICA also added to these tasty delights and helped sell the produce to bolster funds. The Iveragh Vintage field day also provided children's entertainment and Myles' cousin Eileen O'Connor provided music on the day. The club also remembered the late Christopher O'Connor from Dromid and Milltown and the late Eddie Quinlan -both club members who also passed away. A special plaque was also presented to Shane Lyne who is retiring from the club and who over the years has given so much time to help bring events to fruition. Myles' wife Brenda said the annual field day went very well and she expressed her gratitude to all those that helped out and ensured such substantial funds for Cahersiveen Community Hospital. "We blew it out of the water with more than €21k now raised and money is still coming in," she said.
Yahoo
16-07-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
'Our beloved nephew was let down by Huddersfield medics - what happened is unforgiveable'
The family of a Huddersfield man who died following failings in his care have described what happened as 'unforgiveable'. Much-loved son Myles Scriven, 31, from Dalton, a keen Huddersfield Town fan who had autism and a learning disability, died from a pulmonary embolism - a blood clot - which followed poor standards of care by his local GP and by hospital medics with the Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Trust. An inquest into his death heard hospital clinicians were "at best blind" to the implications of Myles' learning disabilities and autism and did not undertake a mental capacity assessment, instead assuming Myles was able to understand clinical decisions being made. READ MORE: Lindsay Rimer murder bombshell as mysterious 'Honda man' ruled out - 4 more suspects and theories READ MORE: Yorkshire children 'taught by supply teachers' as 1,000s fleeing schools mapped Assistant coroner Crispin Oliver said clinicians had taken a "complacent and dismissive attitude" towards Myles and his learning disability. He concluded neglect had contributed towards Myles' death. Mr Oliver was also critical of the way Myles had been treated by Dalton Surgery on March 2023, shortly before his death at Huddersfield Royal Infirmary on April 16. GPs had demonstrated in their evidence they had "very little real grasp" of the technical and regulatory requirements relating to the case, said Mr Oliver. Health Trust employee Amanda McKie, a nurse consultant with responsibility for patients with learning disabilities, agreed during the inquest that the GPs' knowledge of learning disabilities, as displayed in their evidence, was 'frayed and fragile'. The coroner noted Amanda McKie had given staff in secondary care a proficient assessment of what was needed for Myles for him to be treated accurately and safely - but none of it was done, apart from putting him in a separate room and one communication with his uncle-in-law, David, himself a former hospital medical director. The coroner said a decision to change Myles' treatment had been taken without recourse to David. Although the treatment with the anticoagulant drug Rivaroxaban had failed, it was continued, which was a decision set on unreliable and unsafe communication, the coroner said. Mr Oliver concluded that it is 'beyond reasonable doubt' that Myles would have survived if he had been given warfarin instead, which a haematology duty register had recommended. The coroner said: "...it was apparent that Myles needed to come off Rivaroxaban and onto warfarin in order to survive. This was not done. "Dr (Andrew) Hardy, who I must say was an admirably candid witness and seems personally broken by his role in Myles' death, struggled to find any explanation for why he did not continue on to prescribe warfarin." His conclusion added: "Miles Edward Scriven died at Huddersfield Royal Infirmary on April 16, 2023. Contributing to the cause of death was lack of adjustments for his autism and learning disabilities resulting in incorrect decision making as to his care and medication." The coroner found that three matters made a direct contribution to Myles' death: The management by primary and secondary care of his medical treatment from August 2022 to April 2023 in the context of his learning disability. The decision to continue with Rivaroxaban when it had clearly failed. The lack of referral to secondary care by his GPs between March 16-20, 2023. Mr Oliver said he would issue a Prevention of Future Deaths Report to the GP surgery and the Trust. The Dalton surgery had failed to carry out an internal review for learning purposes, he said, and had failed to record observations properly on March 20, 2023. Mr Oliver said the Dalton Surgery's actions did not have the character of neglect. Myles' uncle Paul Scriven, former Sheffield Council leader who is now a Lib Dem peer, and his husband David, said they had acted as an advocate for Myles but had not been consulted at critical moments. At the inquest conclusion, Paul said: "We are sad and there's a void and disbelief. David and I were advocates - if we had been brought in, we would not be having this conversation or inquest. "The GPs let him down, the trust let him down. I can never forgive Huddersfield trust... it's like window dressing. They have these policies about learning disability and say they have won these awards... but the fact is it isn't put into practice." He added: "I think the board and the trust... needs to work out why it has gone so badly wrong... and make significant changes. "To the GPs I would say... we don't think it's safe. They need to look at how safe their practice is." Following the inquest conclusion, Brendan Brown, chief executive at Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust, said: "Our sincere condolences go out to Myles' family and his loved ones. We accept the coroner's findings in full, and will ensure these are used to build upon the changes made as a result of the Trust's internal review and the clinical lessons learned from Myles' sad death. "We would also like to thank the coroner for acknowledging the progress made by the Trust. "This includes the work we have completed on training, and the investment made over the last few years in supporting people with learning disabilities, including compliance audits for capacity assessments. "We accept that there is further work we need to do around ensuring all colleagues understand the needs of people we care for who live with a learning disability, and that this is proactively promoted and followed through into practice." Get all the latest and breaking Huddersfield news straight to your inbox by signing up to our daily newsletter here.
ITV News
16-07-2025
- Health
- ITV News
'Unforgiveable': Damning report finds death of learning disabled man was 'entirely preventable'
The inquest into the death of Myles Scriven in Huddersfield found multiple opportunities to save his life were missed, as ITV News Investigations Editor Dan Hewitt reports A coroner has issued a damning report against an NHS hospital trust following the entirely preventable death of a 31-year-old autistic man with learning disabilities, branding the attitude of doctors 'dismissive and complacent'. The inquest into the death of Myles Scriven in Huddersfield found multiple opportunities to save his life were missed by staff at Huddersfield Royal Infirmary and his GP practice, after he died from an entirely treatable blood clot in his leg. Myles' uncle Paul Scriven, who is a Liberal Democrat peer in the House of Lords, told ITV News his nephew's death is "unforgivable", and accused the Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Trust of being "more concerned with defending its reputation than preventing the deaths of people with learning disabilities". Lord Scriven said Myles' death must be a watershed moment in how people with learning disabilities are treated in the health service. Myles became unwell in late 2022 with shortness of breath and a blood clot in his leg. He was prescribed Rivaroxaban - a blood thinning medication - but despite taking the pill every day as prescribed, months later he was still unwell. A consultant haematologist recommended switching Myles' medication to a different blood thinner - Warfarin - but Myles' doctor instead assumed Myles was not taking the drug and opted to keep Myles on Rivaroxaban. When in April 2023, Myles was again suffering with shortness of breath, his GP surgery offered him a telephone consultation, despite Myles' stated issues with communication. Myles was struggling to breathe normally but he was not referred to A&E, and instead was told to stay at home. The following day, Myles collapsed and was rushed to hospital, where he later died from a pulmonary embolism. Despite his family flagging with healthcare professionals that he had a learning disability and was autistic, and would require help to make medical or treatment decisions, his two uncles - who were his stated medical advocates - were never contacted by the hospital or GP either in late 2022 or spring 2023. 'For all intents and purposes, other than his learning disability and autism, Myles was physically well,' said David Black, Paul's husband and Myles' uncle. 'There's lots of different things that can be done, but unfortunately these opportunities were never afforded to Myles, merely because he wasn't believed and because he was learning disabled and autistic, he wasn't really able to engage in decisions about his treatment.' On July 11, 2025, the coroner in Bradford found that both a lack of adjustment for Myles' learning disability and autism and neglect contributed to his death. He found healthcare professionals had a 'complacent and dismissive attitude towards Myles and his learning disability', clinicians were 'blind' to his needs, and did not make sufficient reasonable adjustments for his disability. Speaking in his first television interview to ITV News about Myles' death, Lord Scriven said "there is no doubt" that Myles would still be alive if he did not have a learning disability. 'Hearing that this was preventable - that Myles could have been saved on at least three occasions - was really, really difficult,' he said. 'If we had been called, we would have been able to support Myles in making a decision that would have probably saved his life.' During the inquest, the NHS Trust tried to argue Myles did have mental capacity to make his own decisions regarding his medical treatment. 'David knew Myles for 28 years of his life. I carried Myles in the first few hours of his life, and I carried him on my shoulder in his coffin to his grave,' said Lord Scriven. 'He didn't have capacity. They were trying to tell us that people who had been with him for ten minutes knew him better than us.' 'It is unforgivable.' 'It was trying to save their reputation rather than reflecting and trying to save peoples' lives with learning disabilities.' Official data shows that men with a learning disability die 20 years earlier than the general population in the UK. Women with a learning disability die on average 23 years younger. Professor Sara Ryan researches social care with a specialism in learning disabilities and autism. Her own son, Connor Sparrowhawk, who was learning disabled, autistic and had epilepsy, died in 2013 whilst in the care of an NHS assessment facility. 'I was struck by how similar Myles' death was to Connor's in that he died through the most woeful failings of healthcare,' she told ITV News. 'Connor was left to drown in a bath in a hospital unit, and he had diagnosed epilepsy.' 'We have to remember that people with learning disabilities aren't ill,' Professor Ryan said. 'There's no reason why people should be dying so early. You have got a tsunami of evidence that says we know why people are dying, we know how people are dying, and we are doing nothing about it.' Outside Bradford Coroner's Court, Myles' uncles reflected on the judgement. 'It was very raw listening to the full list of times Myles could have been saved.' 'We now want to do something positive in the legacy of Myles. To say that Myles' death will not be in vain, and other families do not have to go through what we've been through,' Paul said. Brendan Brown, Chief Executive, Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust, said: 'My sincere condolences go out to Myles' family and his loved ones. We have formally apologised to Myles' family, but we fully acknowledge that no apology can compensate for the profound impact of what has occurred, nor for the failings identified within the Trust. "We accept the coroner's findings in full. We will ensure these are used to build upon the changes made as a result of the Trust's internal review and the clinical lessons learned from Myles' sad death. 'We acknowledge the concerns that there is more which we could have done to involve Myles' family in his care and are acting on this as a Trust.'
