Assignment 205 task B The first report of serious failure to protect individuals from abuse. Is the winterbourne case, The winterbourne view hospital abuse took place at winterbourne view, a private hospital at hambrook, south Gloucestershire England. A BBC panorama investigation on the television in 2011, exposed the physical and psychological abuse suffered by people with learning disabilities and autism at the hospital. Local social services and the English national regulator (CQC) had received various warnings but the mistreatment continued. One senior nurse reported his concerns to the management at winterbourne view and to CQC, but his compliant was not taken up.
ASSIGNMENT 204 - TASK B – RESEARCH AND ACCOUNT IDENTIFY TWO REPORTS ON SERIOUS FAILURES TO PROTECT INDIVIDUALS ON ABUSE. WRITE AN ACCOUNT THAT DESCRIBES THE UNSAFE PRACTICES IN THE REVIEWS. REPORT 1 Concerns at Winterbourne View Hospital first came to light after a charge nurse raised the issues with the hospital in October 2010 and his allegations were passed on to the local authority, South Gloucestershire council, in its capacity as lead safeguarding agency and then relayed to the CQC in December 2010 but nothing was done. In May 2011 the BBC released undercover footage about the appalling way vulnerable residents at Winterbourne View Hospital were being treated, once the footage was released it came into light that the owners of Winterbourne View, health regulators, local health services and the police had failed to act upon increasing warning signs. On the 18TH June 2011 the CQC published its findings following an inspection of services provided at Winterbourne View.
Hospital's owners Castlebeck, apologised and suspended 13 employees. NHS South West said it was "appalled" and the Care Quality Commission said there was an "unforgivable error of judgement" in not investigating earlier abuse claims. Hillcroft Care Home, Lancashire - Research In October 2012 six care workers were arrested in connection with abuse in Hillcroft Care Home near Lancashire. The police were called into the home of May that year, after a complaint from staff. Five nurses and one matron
A short time before his fourth birthday Dahmer had a double hernia operation, which seemed to affect him in many ways. He became highly narrow-minded and lacking in self-confidence (Biography, 2010). During Dahmer’s early childhood, his father changed careers resulting in the family moving to from Iowa to Bath, Ohio (Biography, 2010). At school, Dahmer’s classmates considered him the classic “geek” erging for attention. On many occasions, he acted out in rages (Frasier, 1996).
Facts: The Plaintiff, Zelma Mitchell was terminated from Lovington Good Samaritan Center, Inc, on June 4, 1974. The termination was the result of alleged misconduct. On June 12, 1974, Ms Mitchell, applied for unemployment benefits, which were denied by the Unemployment Security Commission deputy. This disqualified Ms. Mitchell from seven weeks of benefits pursuant to 59-9-6(E) N.M.S.A 1953. Ms. Mitchell filed an appealed July 24, 1974, which the Appeal Tribunal overturned the Deputy’s decision and reinstated these benefits to Ms. Mitchell on August 28, 1974.
Suddenly, Mr. Smith was experiencing cognitive impairment known as psychosis. Due to emergency and presenting unordinary circumstances, the psychiatric nurse, Ms. Veering contacted Dr. Krauskopf, the psychiatrist at John Marshall Hospital. Dr. Krauskopf placed Mr. Smith on medication in order to calm him down and transferred him out of the ICU. Mr. Smith was placed on one-to-one nursing. At four a.m. on July 5, 2009, Mr. Smith was found in the bathroom hung by another patient.
This had led to a public enquiry, which resulted in measures being put in place in an effort to prevent similar cases happening. Peter's mother, Tracey Connelly, her boyfriend, Steven Barker, and Jason Owen (later revealed to be the brother of Barker) were all convicted of causing or allowing the death of a child, the mother having pleaded guilty to the charge. A court order issued by the High Court in England had prevented the publication of the identity of Baby P; Mr Justice Coleridge lifted this on 1 May 2009. An order sought by Haringey Council to stop publication of the identities of his mother and her boyfriend, was granted, but expired on 10 August 2009. The child protection services of Haringey and other agencies were widely criticised.
This quote from the editorial explains what a kid with mental health issues, and violent actions resulted in. This was a horrible and terrible innocent death to the little boy and his family. “A psychiatrist who specializes in the care of adolescents testified that Kinkel, now 17, had been hearing voices since he was 12.”(Par. 3) This example form the editorial shows medical attention wasn’t given to him at all in the beginning in order to prevent this from happening. Also it explains that because it came about at a young age if help had been given early on, things might have ended differently.
Shortly thereafter, they were arrested for and found guilty of being accessories in the sale and distribution of illegal contraception. (T., G.R.) As required by law, they were fined one hundred dollars each and sentenced to jail time. Buxton and Griswold appealed the hearing to the Connecticut Supreme Court on the grounds that the law violated the United States Constitutional right to privacy. It was after appeal in 1965 that the Supreme Court finally heard their case, which after the 1943 Tileston v Ullman case that had attempted to make an appeal on the behalf of patient health, and the 1961 Poe v Ullman hearing in which a doctor and his patient sued because the law was unfair but they had not been harmed by the law so they had to dismiss the hearing.
said Dr. Steven Hyman, a former director of the National Institute of Mental Health. This film portrayed major issues seen through the medicating of Jacob, Jessica, and DJ’s. Three major issues dealt with in this documentary were that there was lack of research for child medications, unknown affectivities, and that these children were growing up to have manic depression. The documentary highlights the lack