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.
The undercover footage in the broadcast exposed all of the physical and psychological abuse that was suffered by people with learning disabilities and challenging behaviour. In total 9 claims were made about the home within 3 years to the relevant authorities – including one from a senior nurse at the care home who went to the CQC about his concerns, yet none of these were followed up or investigated. The type of abuse the patients suffered through involved the following: cold punishment
As a result of this documentary, in July 2014, one staff member was immediately dismissed and seven people supsended and in August, three carers appeared in court charged with assaulting and neglecting elderly residents. The independant regulator for health and social care in England-the Care Quality Commission (hereafter CQC)-carried out a detailed investigation into the Old Deanery and on October 1st 2014, published its findings. The damning report concluded that the home was meeting just one of its 9 standard requirements. Almost immediately, there followed a wave of high profile media coverage. The scope of this analysis included newspapers, tabloids and broadsheets, television news reports and internet news websites.
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 . Russell Yates had no choice but to trust the doctor ‘s wisdom , after all Saeed was the professional trained to understand mental health (Cohen ) It might be said that this was just a slight mistake in judgment or that the doctor may have assumed that the situation at hand wasn ‘t that serious but as history revealed itself the world would find out that Dr . Saeed made a number of bad decisions in Yates ‘ case . In May , Yates was admitted to the Devereux Treatment Network in League City , Texas where she was under the treatment of Dr . Saeed .
A serious case review found Daniel Pelka, was simply "not heard" at times and "no professional tried sufficiently hard enough" to talk to him. He was starved and beaten for months before he died in March 2012, at his Coventry home. The court heard Daniel saw a doctor in hospital for a broken arm, arrived at school with bruises and facial injuries, and was seen scavenging for food. A teaching assistant described him as a "bag of bones" and the trial
Eight workers at other Kaiser hospitals and the chain’s regional office were among those implicated, said Kathleen Billingsley, deputy director of the Public Health Department’s Center for Health Care Quality. Ornstein (2009). The steps Kaiser took to protect Suleman’s privacy were not aggressive enough. Kaiser workers were still being investigated by the California Office of Health Information Integrity, which will decide whether individual penalties will be imposed. 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.
Creon, the tragic hero, performs actions with a very clouded judgment. Haimon and Therieseis notice his foolishness early on and attempt to correct him but he refuses to admit his faults. Because Creon became king for his blood and not ability, he has no sense of how a king is suppose
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.
Care Home Abuse Probe Police are investigating a nursing home following complaints that elderly residents have been bruised, left filthy and robbed. Officials launched a probe into the operation of 64-bed Honeymead Care Home after families of two residents reported bruises on their loved ones’ skin and poor levels of hygiene. They are also scrutinising allegations that jewellery, including rings and necklaces, was stolen from residents at the £595-a-week care facility in Bedminster, Bristol. Avon and Somerset Police confirmed today that they had launched an investigation into the allegations and promised to take them ‘extremely seriously’. A police spokesman said: ‘Officers from our Public Protection Unit are aware of these incidents and full investigations are underway to
Jayne was horrified and rightly so. After these careless disgusting acts were reported, Jonathon was jailed for eighteen months. It took five whole months for his employer to sack him which in anyone’s eyes is ludicrous. It also took months for the other carers involved to be dismissed as the CQC didn’t see their wrong doings as gross misconduct. This is another case of the failings of a care home and CQC which is happening one to many times.