Inadequate hospital care for learning disabled
Failures in basic care, pain assessment, missed examinations, and escalation for learning-disabled adults in hospitals.
2 items
1 source
2 inquiries
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Inadequate hospital care for learning disabled has been flagged across 1 independent accountability source:
2 inquiry recs
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Inquiry Recommendations (2)
R29 — Patient weighing equipment
Recommendation: Health Boards should ensure that there is appropriate equipment in each ward to weigh all patients. Patients should be weighed on admission and at least weekly thereafter and weights recorded. Faulty equipment should be repaired or replaced timeously and a …
Words of: Scottish Government, The Scottish Government's Response to the Vale of Leven Hospital Inquiry Report, section 1.3, 18 June 2015
Gov response: The Scottish Government accepts its responsibility for the failings identified in the report and we apologise unreservedly for the suffering and loss caused. We accept in full all of the report's recommendations.
Accepted
17 — Improve Furness General Hospital delivery suite
Recommendation: The University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust should identify options, with a view to implementation as soon as practicable, to improve the physical environment of the delivery suite at Furness General Hospital, including particularly access to operating theatres, …
Words of: Department of Health, Learning not blaming (Cm 9113), government response to the Morecambe Bay Investigation and two other reports, July 2015
Gov response: [A] Recommendations for the Trust Recommendations for the Trust: 1-18 1. The Morecambe Bay Investigation found that there were serious failures in clinical care at University Hospitals Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust, causing avoidable harm …
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