Winterbourne View hospital should have been a safe place for them to be treated with care and compassion but the hospitals owners Castlebeck failed to provide that care. Instead it left vulnerable adults in the hands of poorly trained and poorly supervised staff, who dealt out torment and abuse to those entrusted to their care”. Mr Murphy’s statement was one of many which was made to reassure the public that the issues raised were being dealt with
The individuals were not able to defend themselves, this is an abuse of power and trust. Winterbourne were putting profits before humanity, it was run with a view to profit and with a lack of interest to its residents or staff. Poor working practices are seen here, one member of staff stated that he was originally shocked by the ill treatment of patients at Winterbourne yet became use to it over time. This is unsafe practice, not reporting incidents is also abusing the residents as they are still in danger. It was this member of staff’s responsibility to report what was happening.
Mr Bryan, a senior nurse, had alerted the care home’s management and the CQC on several occasions, but his concerns failed to be followed up. After considering a range of evidence, CQC inspectors found Castlebeck Care had failed to ensure That people living at Winterbourne View were adequately protected from risk, including the risks of unsafe practices by its own staff. It said: “There was a systemic failure to protect people or to investigate allegations of abuse. “The provider had failed in its legal duty to notify the Care Quality Commission of serious incidents including injuries to patients or occasions when they had gone missing.” It added that staff did not appear to understand the needs of the people in their care and said “some staff were too ready to use methods of restraint without considering alternatives”. The watchdog said the review began as soon as it found out Panorama had gathered evidence, including secret filming, to show the serious abuse of patients at the centre.
First Rosenhan sent a number of healthy pseudo patients to 12 different mental institutes undercover. They were told to tell the hospital that they were hearing voices in their head and otherwise act normal. All pseudo patients were taken in by the mental institutes. To the pseudo patients surprise when they claimed that they were ‘normal’ no one believed them and therefore they had to stay in the institute until they had been cured. Later when they got out and the media got to know about the events the public was outraged.
The BBC's Undercover Care into Castlebeck's Winterbourne View In may 2011 the BBC's television program Panorama broadcasted a program, called undercover care, which would disgust and sicken the United Kingdom. The BBC sent an undercover reporter into Winterbourne, after they were approached by a former senior nurse (Terry Bryan) who was concerned about some of the hospitals support workers. After he had complained ( also known as whistle blowing) to his managers at Winterbourne view and to the local Care Quality Commission (CQC), but his complaint was never taken further by either party. Winterbourne View is a private hospital, situated in Bristol in the South of the country. In the private hospital, which apparently charges up to £3,500 per week to care for their patients, the care for people who suffer with learning disabilities and autism, which means their behaviour, can be to challenging at times to have them at home.
This is an unfortunate event for the patient and any health care team member. A breach in confidentiality goes against the HIPAA privacy rule and has severe consequences. First, the patient is affected because they feel like it’s the hospital’s fault for the leak in their health information. The patient feels betrayed and loses all trust in the facility. This causes a potential loss of business from the patient and whoever the patient tells about the incident.
03 Jan. 2013. This source tells you about how the women that want over to Vietnam to help the man that got either got shot wounded or had dieses they would go over and treat them they didn’t call them patients but casualties. The nurses would have little to none training in the medical field on how to do treat them; the older women who was sent over has had then two years of training in the medical field but the others had less then six months of it. The soldiers were being treated for multiple drug addiction during the end of war. American people started setting up drug wards to wean them off all types of drugs like marijuana, opium, amphetamine, cocaine and most common thought out the man was heroin.
ASS5 Katie Howard 23/01/11 Six Lives Description of the Incident The six people who died between the years of 2003 to 2005 were due to indifference. There was a recurrence of complaints that lead everyone to believe the quality of care in NHS and Social Services for people with learning disabilities is patchy and an indictment of our society. The Ombudsman, Jerry White, said ‘The six lives show that many occasions basic policy and guidance were not observed, the needs of people with learning disabilities were not accommodated and services were uncoordinated.’ There were investigations which found maladministration, service failure and un-remedied injustice in a number, but not all, there was 20 bodies that were investigated
He describes in detail to his kids every employees name and how they all piss him off one way or another. Having this stroke has made him feel like a “carcass” (4). He shows his hatred throughout the story not only through words, but by giving the reader images by talking about his days spent in the hospital. “Every hour or few they would wake me up, I was dazed because I didn’t sleep enough” (4). Mr. Sanchez does not like when
I walked to my patient’s room and saw the patient breathing with accessory muscles and said she didn’t know what was wrong but didn’t feel well. I listened to her lungs and found she now had crackles in all lobes of the lungs. The nurse who answered her call light was her first year as a Registered Nurse. The nurse did not listen to her lungs had only taken vitals. One extra step during an assessment saved that patients life.