Victoria had been racially abused by a white patient, staff had tried their best to move her off the ward, and this has made akinyemi very annoyed and angry. After this many nurses covered her mouth and blind folded her for 20 minutes, in result to this Victoria then died of asphyxiation. Adding on to this her family was not informed about her death for 4 days. In June 2012, an inquest came to a result of ‘unintentional death’. The coroner made suggestions to improve practices.
CU298P/ CT298 Principles of Safeguarding and Protection in Health and Social Care 3.3 Identify reports into serious failures to protect individuals from abuse. 1) There was a “systemic failure to protect people” by the owners of a Bristol hospital at the centre of abuse allegations involving vulnerable adults, care watchdogs have said. The Care Quality Commission has published its findings following an inspection of services provided At Winterbourne View, owned by Castlebeck Care Ltd, in Bristol. The report comes after the BBC’s Panorama filmed patients being pinned down, slapped, doused in cold water and repeatedly taunted and teased despite warnings by whistle blower Terry Bryan. 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.
In the 1960’s a group of psychiatrists’ formed the anti-psychiatry movement and stated that psychiatry had no validity. Psychiatrists like Thomas Szasz put forward the idea that mental illness did not exist and that people were struggling to make sense of a mad world and another psychiatrist called Ronal Lain put forward an idea which suggested that a person’s mother makes them mentally ill. In 1973 David Rosenhan conducted an experiment into the validity of psychiatric diagnosis. This study was conducted in two parts. First Rosenhan sent a number of healthy pseudo patients to 12 different mental institutes undercover.
His only fault was to trust the wrong doctor – psychiatrist Dr . Mohammad Saeed . Perhaps the most disastrous decision of Dr . Saeed took place on June 18 , 2001 . Two days prior to drowning her children Andrea Yates had visited Saeed and the doctor described her condition as “increasingly declining ‘ then sent her home .
Winterbourne View Scandal I have chosen to write about the Winterbourne View care home for my essay about the abuse the people under their care experienced as this is a subject I feel very passionate about. The Winterbourne care home was a privately run hospital in Hambrook, south Gloucestershire operated by Castlebeck care, which closed in the wake of the scandal. Winterbourne was opened in December 2006 and had enough beds for 24 people with learning difficulties; it was registered to provide assessment and treatment to their residents. Castlebeck earned an average of £3,500 per week for each patient with a turnover of £3.7 million. The patients of Winterbourne care home were placed far away from their families, one of the main reasons they were placed in Winterbourne was so they can manage crisis.
Reading Questions Name Megan Ortisi Ch 10: And the Band Played On Questions Points ________________________¬¬ 1. Describe at least two scenes from the film And the Band Played On where we witnessed the corporatization of health care surrounding AIDS. a. One scene where we witnessed the corporatization of health care surrounding AIDS was when the man at the French hospital was mad because Dr. Rozenhaum was treating so many people with AIDS. The director of the hospital told the doctor that the “normal people” won’t come in for treatment now because they are scared of all the people in the hospital with AIDS.
Kaiser told the public health agency on Feb. 5 that two employees inappropriately accessed the records of Suleman, who gave birth on Jan. 26 to the world’s only surviving octuplets, according to a Public Health Department report issued Thursday. By Feb. 20, six employees had been identified as having accessed records without authorization. On March 20, 17 more employees were added to the list, including two doctors, for a total of 23. Ornstein (2009). Of those, 15 were either terminated or resigned under pressure and eight faced other disciplinary actions, the state said in a report.
When the mental health facilities were shut down, police and prisons are left to deal with the mantally ill patients. As these patients were released from the hospitals, due to their lack of mental health, many would become homeless and eventually cycle into the prison systems. Once in the prisons, these mentally ill individuals are offered much less care than what many of them need in treating their different types of disorders. Group therapy in such prisons is very informal and conducted in an uptight environment. In these sessions the inmates are kept in chains and separated by jail cells in an open room, as opposed to a patient friendly atmosphere the psychiatric hospitals are able to provide.
It also showed emotional and verbal abuse in the form of name calling. This was an inhumane and diabolic mistreatment of vulnerable individuals unable to defend themselves. Winterbourne appears to have made decisions based on profits and returns, over and above decisions about the effective and humane delivery of assessments and treatments. Where were the staff who should have been reporting these crimes to management , if management was not listening then they should have been reported to the authorities and organisations, such as social services and CQC that is what they are there for. Staff who had no involvement in the actions taken towards the residents, but failed to comply with the agreed ways of working and report what they knew was wrong is just as much to blame as those who were involved.
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.