2 POVA failures
Write about 2 serious failures to protect – 204 continued
Care home covered up neglected that killed five: Staff shredded medical records revealing 'institutional abuse'
19 elderly people died at the 'mismanaged and understaffed' home
Orchid View, was rated as 'good' a year before it was shutdown
Coroner describes case as 'heart-breaking' in scathing verdict
'How this could happen in a 21st century care home beggars belief', says lawyer representing families of the victims
Whistleblower was told to shred forms to cover up failings
Wilfred Gardner, 85, Margaret Tucker, 77, Enid Trodden, 86, John Holmes, 85, and Jean Halfpenny, 77 all died after being neglected
By TAMARA COHEN FOR THE DAILY MAIL and LARISA BROWN FOR THE DAILY MAIL
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2465955/Five-elderly-residents-died-neglect-care-home-institutionalised-abuse.html#ixzz3Mk1ispNv
Five elderly people died after suffering a devastating catalogue of neglect at a care home rated ‘good’ by the official regulator.
Another 14 residents died of natural causes after suffering ‘sub-optimal’ care at the home, run by the Southern Cross chain.
A coroner yesterday said the Orchid View home was riddled with ‘institutional abuse’ yet the Care Quality Commission had failed to raise the alarm.
Victims: Residents Jean Halfpenny, left, and Doris Fielding, right. Mrs Halfpenny died after being neglected at Orchid View. She overdosed on the blood thinning drug warfarin
'Disgraceful: A five-week inquest has heard how residents were given the wrong medication and left soiled
She said staff – several of whom are still working in the care sector – should be ‘ashamed’ of their behaviour, some of which involved shredding medical records in an attempted cover-up.
A five-week inquest heard that residents were routinely given overdoses of medication, and were left soiled and in pain during two years of terrible mismanagement and staff shortages.
West Sussex coroner Penelope Schofield said
Care home covered up neglected that killed five: Staff shredded medical records revealing 'institutional abuse'
19 elderly people died at the 'mismanaged and understaffed' home
Orchid View, was rated as 'good' a year before it was shutdown
Coroner describes case as 'heart-breaking' in scathing verdict
'How this could happen in a 21st century care home beggars belief', says lawyer representing families of the victims
Whistleblower was told to shred forms to cover up failings
Wilfred Gardner, 85, Margaret Tucker, 77, Enid Trodden, 86, John Holmes, 85, and Jean Halfpenny, 77 all died after being neglected
By TAMARA COHEN FOR THE DAILY MAIL and LARISA BROWN FOR THE DAILY MAIL
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2465955/Five-elderly-residents-died-neglect-care-home-institutionalised-abuse.html#ixzz3Mk1ispNv
Five elderly people died after suffering a devastating catalogue of neglect at a care home rated ‘good’ by the official regulator.
Another 14 residents died of natural causes after suffering ‘sub-optimal’ care at the home, run by the Southern Cross chain.
A coroner yesterday said the Orchid View home was riddled with ‘institutional abuse’ yet the Care Quality Commission had failed to raise the alarm.
Victims: Residents Jean Halfpenny, left, and Doris Fielding, right. Mrs Halfpenny died after being neglected at Orchid View. She overdosed on the blood thinning drug warfarin
'Disgraceful: A five-week inquest has heard how residents were given the wrong medication and left soiled
She said staff – several of whom are still working in the care sector – should be ‘ashamed’ of their behaviour, some of which involved shredding medical records in an attempted cover-up.
A five-week inquest heard that residents were routinely given overdoses of medication, and were left soiled and in pain during two years of terrible mismanagement and staff shortages.
West Sussex coroner Penelope Schofield said