The failures of the report focuses heavily on the staffing levels. The owners of the home have not put the needs of the residents even to meet the minimum care standard. The staffing levels were inadequate, with inadequate training. In some cases some of the staff didn’t have the necessary background clearance checks, some people were working
Identify two reports on serious failures to protect individuals from abuse. Write an account that describes the unsafe practices in the reviews. 1. For this account I am going to refer to the Care Quality Commission’s (CQC) review of Castlebeck Care after the publicised scandal of patients suffering abuse at one of their care homes; Winterbourne View hospital. ‘The CQC report on Winterbourne View found owners Castlebeck Care had failed to ensure residents living at the unit were adequately protected from risk, including the risks of unsafe practices by its own staff.’ [www.bbc.co.uk] This review outlined the unsafe practices as well as recommendations it has to Castlebeck.
This is summary of two articles describing neglect of residents at a residential home in Northampton. One is from Daily Mail (6.10.2010)” ‘Severe neglect’ of staff blamed for appalling deaths of five elderly care home residents in just two weeks” and the other one is from The Guardian(6.10.2010) “Elderly care home residents died after suffering ‘severe neglect’ “ . Both articles describe preventable deaths of residents in a private nursing home, Parkside House between July 22 and August 6, 2009. The home was originally set up to provide for people over 65 suffering from dementia or long-standing mental illness. But the management decided to admit residents with higher level of dependency and additional needs and ‘simply could not cope’.
Charlotte Cowen Task B Research and Account Identify two reports on serious failures to protect individuals from abuse. Winterbourne View Hospital Abuse In june 2011, a serious incident occurred known as the winterbourne view hospital abuse. It was a private hospital in South Gloucestershire which was owned and operated by Castlebeck. It was all broadcasted on television in 2011 in a panorama investigation which expose the physical and psychological abuse which was suffered by people who has learning disabilities and challenging behaviour within the hospital. The local social services and the English national regulator, Care Quality Commission, had received various warnings but the mistreatment continued.
1e. Institutional abuse Regimented routines and no choice for people. Prevented from going out/ freedom 2. Signs and symptoms Withdrawn behaviour, unhappy, no interest in social activities 1f, g. Self neglect/ neglect by others Self neglect is when a person does not take care of themselves, such as not washing or eating properly, neglect by others is if a carer fails to provide good care for a person and doesn’t attend to their needs. 2.
A series of errors were made in the procurement, design, implementation, and introduction of the system. Ambulance crew staff had no confidence in the system and were not fully trained. There had been no attempt to foresee fully the effect of inaccurate or incomplete data available to the system. In particular, the decision on that day to use only the computer generated resource allocations was a high risk move. Following are the problems that existed in LASCAD, and some causes: • Existing systems were dismissed as inadequate and impossible to modify to meet LAS’s needs • Contract had to be put out to open tender • Most suppliers raised concerns over the proposed timetable of less than 1 year • Only 1 of all the proposals met all of the project team’s requirements • System Options had no previous experience of building dispatch systems for ambulance services • The Systems Manager, a key member of the evaluation team, was already told that he was to make way for a properly qualified systems manager.
Mr. Ard wife made several contacts to the nurse and there was no response in a timely manner. A nurse eventually came and instead of checking the patient out thoroughly medication for nausea was given to him. The wife notice that her husband symptoms was getter worse and tried paging the nurse in which did not arrive until an hour and 25 minutes later. The nurse realize that the patient condition was threatening and called for a code of medical attention, however, Mr. Ard did not survive and died shortly afterward. The patient wife filed a malpractice law suit of wrongful death against the hospital facility and was awarded judgment of the negligence by the nurse in which the case was later appealed by the hospital.
Principles of safeguarding and protection in health and social care Section 4 – Task Four care workers have been sentenced for abusing elderly residents at a care home in Lancashire. The abuse took place from May 2010 to September 2011 at Hillcroft nursing home in Slyne-with-Hest near Lancaster. They were charged with ill-treatment and wilful neglect of a person with lack of capacity under the Mental Capacity Act 2005. Residents were mocked, bullied and tormented because they would have no memory of the abuse. The court was told one man had his foot stamped on deliberately and another was nearly tipped out of his wheelchair.
Discrimination has been a really big factor to the people with special needs; it has been helping to make their lives worse. They have been ignored by some of the hospital staff and were not treated like they should have been treated. Because of their disability, they have been discriminated against by the hospital staff by providing them poor healthcare services. This shows that they are not being treated with respect nor being treated with dignity. Some hospital staff have shown them neglect and let them feel like they have no importance.
It also showed emotional and verbal abuse in the form of name calling. The CQC was informed that the BBC television programme Panorama had gathered evidence over several months including secret filming to show serious abuse of patients at Winterbourne view. After they looked into the case they found that the centre was run at a very low standed and the staff was under trained and left to there own devices and methods which in some cases were horrific. Here are just a few of the things that the centre did not do that was later found out... Failure to protect people or to investigate allegations of abuse. Failed in its legal duty to notify the CQC of serious incidents including injuries to patients or occasions when they had gone missing.