Disability
Extracts taken from CQC - Care Quality Commission - media release.
'People often not at the centre of their own care, says CQC as it publishes reports from its review of services for people with learning disabilities
'The Care Quality Commission (CQC) today publishes a further 20 reports from a targeted programme of 150 unannounced inspections of hospitals and care homes that care for people with learning disabilities.
'The programme is looking at whether people experience safe and appropriate care, treatment and support and whether they are protected from abuse. A national report into the findings of the programme will be published in the Spring.
'An area of concern to emerge from an initial analysis of the first 40 reports is that many services are failing to provide patient-...
1 year 14 weeks ago'Develop learning disability nursing to stop more scandals'
If no action is taken to improve the quality of learning disability nursing then we are likely to see more “Winterbourne View” care failings, warns Bob Gates.
We must understand why such terrible care failings for people with learning disabilities happened at Winterbourne View. If we don’t understand and take action to improve care, “Winterbourne” may become synonymous with a long list of scandals like those that characterised residential services for people with learning disabilities in the 1960s...
For learning disability nursing to develop, it must be promoted and supported by the health service, the Royal College of Nursing and the Nursing and Midwifery Council. This has begun with the...
1 year 27 weeks agoCase name: London Borough of Hillingdon v Neary & Anor; Case number: [2011] EWHC 1377 (COP); Judge: Mr Justice Peter Jackson; Location: Court of Protection, Royal Courts of Justice
This case centred on the question of whether the London Borough of Hillingdon was acting lawfully when it kept Steven Neary, a young man with disabilities, in its care for a year against his and his father's wishes. Though he was initially placed in respite care in December 2009 at his father's request, this was intended to be for a few days. But he was kept in the local authority's care unit until December 2010 on deprivation of liberty orders under the Mental Capacity Act 2005.
Justice Jackson found in favour of Steven Neary, arguing that the deprivation of liberty orders were unlawful as they were based on flawed assessments and that the borough had failed to carry out a genuine best interests assessment. The judge also pointed out that the local authority did...
1 year 36 weeks ago
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