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

A man who was given two death certificates after he died after the heart procedure, says his family covered up what happened to the hospital.

Brian Holmes died in Castle Hill Hospital near Hull. BBC appeared last month He was at the center of a police investigation.

The hospital revised the statement of death to refer to the operation. His daughter Lisa Jones said he believed that medical staff did to “cover up what really happened”.

NHS confidence, which manages the hospital, cannot comment on individual cases, but it is not rare to change a death certificate after a discussion with a coronary officer. “

Castle Hill had 11 deaths, including Mr. Holmes between 2019 and 2023. The BBC understands that six people have died there since last July after the operation.

The mortality rate of the hospital is above the national average.

It is used instead of open heart surgery, a peacock-or transcathethic aortic valve implant-contains a new valve from a plastic tube in the groin. The tube directs the new valve to the heart and changes the damaged one.

Typically, the procedure, which lasts between one and two hours, is usually performed under local anesthetic and is mainly performed in elderly patients.

Last month, the BBC announced Humberside Police, patients’ relatives of the medical complications after the evidence that he died due to evidence that the Tavi service in Castle Hill announced.

Mr. Holmes, an army veteran, went to Castle Hill in 2019 to enter a Tavi.

“He thought he would make a new man,” his 74 -year -old wife Susan said to the BBC. However, the procedure went wrong.

“They told us that Tavi was stuck, and then my husband went into the theater and entered the heart. Then he was bleeding and returned to the theater. He said.

Unfortunately, there was a 73 -year -old fight and died a few days later.

“As far as we know, they did everything right, and it was just one of these things,” Mrs. Holmes said.

However, like other families that the BBC talked about in Castle Hill in recent weeks, it was not right to realize what Holmes was, because the hospital chose to explain the details to them.

The BBC has seen an investigation of an unpublished royal Royal Doctors College (RCP) assigned by the hospital. Mr. Holmes participates in the care.

The examination, treatment plan and application, lowest rating – was graded weakly with all other maintenance stages.

“In every stage of the patient’s path, the wrong positioning of weak clinical decision making, TAVI’s better planning and death certificate could not correctly reflect the factors that contributed to the death of the patient.”

Instead of the jam of Tavi, as the family is said, the investigation reveals that it was incorrectly placed very high. When medical officers released the valve, the aorta of a blood vessel in the heart was moved. Failed attempts were made to move the valve before deciding to perform emergency cardiac surgery, including the completely removal of Tavi.

“Shocking, absolutely shocking,” Mrs. Holmes said, sitting in her garden in Hull next to her two daughters. “The hospital didn’t tell us any of this.”

“They just covered everything – they said nothing to us,” Jones added, 48.

After his death, Mr. Holmes recorded his family death with the death certificate provided by the hospital. However, there was a problem in the registration office – the family is not clear – and I was told to return to Castle Hill. Later, a second death certificate was given that the primary cause of his death was pneumonia and severe aortic stenosis and a blocked heart valve.

The RCP reviewed the original death certificate, saying that Mr. Homes said he had died of pneumonia and a failed Tavi.

The investigation team did not consider the second death certificate that did not mention Tavi as “a correct explanation of the reasons for the death of this patient”. He added that there is no evidence that he was referring to Coroner.

Ms. Jones said that the family did not determine that death certificates have changed until the BBC showed them the review.

“When it was the first, you can’t think of it because you’re upset, so we thought you’d do something wrong in the death certificate,” he said. “[But] They took it back because they knew what happened. “He accused the hospital of using the second” to cover up what really happened to my father “.

“It is very sad to find out what’s going on,” his sister Marie Holmes, 52. “I always know that something is not right behind my mind.”

Humber Health Partnership, Castle Hill Hospital, Guven, despite the fact that he did not comment on an individual case, “a death certificate with a coronary officer after a discussion is not rare,” he said.

Following the BBC story last month, seven families ordered Hudgel lawyers, a law firm, to act on behalf of their own.

The company said that its first task was to understand what happened to every family, including whether the investigations should be kept or reopened.

Neil Hudgell says, “Hospital says the lessons are learned.” He said. “You haven’t announced the Royal College report, can you mark your own homework? How do we know you have learned your lessons?”

The articles of the Board of Directors, published last month, show that the hospital is dealing with the “more death set” in the Tavi service of the hospital. The BBC realizes that this refers to six deaths of patients who had a TAVI procedure between July 2024 and March 2025.

The figures provided by Trust were 2.2%of the mortality rate for the entire 2024 and the first six months of 2025; The latest mortality figure throughout the UK is 1.3%. “Mortality data for any local level changes and can fluctuate,” NHS Trust said.

Both the maintenance quality commission and NHS England were aware of the problems with the Tavi service in Castle Hill.

CQC, “the concerns about the TAVI service is known to us,” Trust NHS England has developed the subject of surveillance.

When asked what they did to inform families about problems, both organizations did not provide any evidence.

NHS UK, “can not comment on the police investigation”, CQC CASTLE Hill’de operation in 2022 “important patient safety concerns” as they considered inadequate for security, he said.