Case Study: Winterbourne View
Amanda McGuire
Winterbourne view
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Winterbourne view was a hospital in South Gloucestershire for people with learning disabilities and autism whose behaviour sometimes made their families and professionals worry.
It was meant to help by assessing and treating patients so that they could have ordinary lives in their own homes.
In 2011, Panorama showed under cover footage of some of staff at the hospital slapping and hurting patients and getting them on the floor.
They even sat on them and lay on them so the patients couldn’t move. Sometimes they used chairs to stop them from getting up. One woman was put in a shower wearing her clothes. Patient’s was clearly being bullied. Barriers of this would leave the patient confused and feeling …show more content…
Wayne was very intimidating and looked a very scary character with full body tattoos, very tall and scary voice.
The impact of this verbal and physical abuse left patients scared, confused and basically used as the staff’s own punch bag. The devastating effects this would have on the patient’s was horrendous causing one resident to try and jump out of the window which made me think that she was trying to commit suicide.
The so-called restraint techniques were used to inflict pain, humiliate patients and bully them into compliance with the demands of their carers’. Making sure they left no marks on the body that people could see.
Among the hours of graphic footage, support worker Wayne Rogers is shown slapping patient Simon Tovey across the cheek before telling him: "Do you want a scrap? Do you want a fight? Go on and I will bite your bloody face off. Personally if that had happened to me I would be distraught and wouldn’t know who or where to turn to
Margaret Flynn had a brother in Winterbourne view that had learning disabilities which also had been subjected to this type of violence. When she found out what had happened at Winterbourne View Hospital. She wanted to make sure this couldn’t happen …show more content…
Some had been poorly when they were there. Some patients had needed to go to Accident and Emergency because they hurt themselves or they were hurt by hospital staff.
Sometimes the police had been called when patients were hurt or had tried to run away. Some patients had complained to their families, friends, staff, the hospital’s managers about being hurt. They were not believed. Even a nurse told the hospital’s manager about patients being hurt at Winterbourne View Hospital.
The nurse then told the BBC and they made a TV programme about it.
It seems to me that the evidence I’ve researched the staff didn’t follow the rules. They weren’t training staff properly. Through this barrier, Patients were hurt and hospitalised.
No one stopped the abuse because they needed the hospital’s managers and staff to tell them what was really happening, they kept everything under wraps leaving patients to suffer in silence. Some staff and patients being abused would of feared for their life if they spoke out and asked for help.
The Council’s safeguarding staff and the police asked Winterbourne View Hospital’s managers and staff about problems, they said everything was OK. They should have asked more questions when patients and staff reported problems at
Winterbourne view
.
Winterbourne view was a hospital in South Gloucestershire for people with learning disabilities and autism whose behaviour sometimes made their families and professionals worry.
It was meant to help by assessing and treating patients so that they could have ordinary lives in their own homes.
In 2011, Panorama showed under cover footage of some of staff at the hospital slapping and hurting patients and getting them on the floor.
They even sat on them and lay on them so the patients couldn’t move. Sometimes they used chairs to stop them from getting up. One woman was put in a shower wearing her clothes. Patient’s was clearly being bullied. Barriers of this would leave the patient confused and feeling …show more content…
Wayne was very intimidating and looked a very scary character with full body tattoos, very tall and scary voice.
The impact of this verbal and physical abuse left patients scared, confused and basically used as the staff’s own punch bag. The devastating effects this would have on the patient’s was horrendous causing one resident to try and jump out of the window which made me think that she was trying to commit suicide.
The so-called restraint techniques were used to inflict pain, humiliate patients and bully them into compliance with the demands of their carers’. Making sure they left no marks on the body that people could see.
Among the hours of graphic footage, support worker Wayne Rogers is shown slapping patient Simon Tovey across the cheek before telling him: "Do you want a scrap? Do you want a fight? Go on and I will bite your bloody face off. Personally if that had happened to me I would be distraught and wouldn’t know who or where to turn to
Margaret Flynn had a brother in Winterbourne view that had learning disabilities which also had been subjected to this type of violence. When she found out what had happened at Winterbourne View Hospital. She wanted to make sure this couldn’t happen …show more content…
Some had been poorly when they were there. Some patients had needed to go to Accident and Emergency because they hurt themselves or they were hurt by hospital staff.
Sometimes the police had been called when patients were hurt or had tried to run away. Some patients had complained to their families, friends, staff, the hospital’s managers about being hurt. They were not believed. Even a nurse told the hospital’s manager about patients being hurt at Winterbourne View Hospital.
The nurse then told the BBC and they made a TV programme about it.
It seems to me that the evidence I’ve researched the staff didn’t follow the rules. They weren’t training staff properly. Through this barrier, Patients were hurt and hospitalised.
No one stopped the abuse because they needed the hospital’s managers and staff to tell them what was really happening, they kept everything under wraps leaving patients to suffer in silence. Some staff and patients being abused would of feared for their life if they spoke out and asked for help.
The Council’s safeguarding staff and the police asked Winterbourne View Hospital’s managers and staff about problems, they said everything was OK. They should have asked more questions when patients and staff reported problems at