Winterbourne View Hospital Report
Winterbourne View hospital report
I am going to write a report about the Winterbourne View hospital abuse. I am going to gather information from the internet in order to write my report.
Winterbourne View hospital was a hospital in South Gloucestershire for people with learning disabilities and autism. Winterbourne View hospital was owned by a company called Castlebeck.
In 2011 it came to light serious abuse allegations after eleven ex staff members admitted offences against patients after a nurse had reported to the hospitals manager about the abuse. Nothing changed so he wrote to the care quality commission. He then went to the BBC where the TV program Panorama, undercover care: the abuse exposed was made. An undercover reporter secured employment as a support worker at Winterbourne View hospital. During his five weeks there he filmed his colleagues tormenting, bullying and assaulting the patients. The Panorama program showed compelling images of patients being slapped, restrained under chairs, having their hair pulled and being held down as medication was forced down their throats. Patients at Winterbourne View hospital were bullied, they had water thrown at them and one lady was put in the shower with her clothes still on. They sat and lay on patients so they could not move. Sometimes chairs were used to stop them from getting up.
After the transmission of the BBC program Panorama under cover care: the abuse exposed, which showed Winterbourne View hospital staff mistreating and assaulting the vulnerable adults there as patients, South Gloucestershire adult safeguarding board commissioned a serious case review.
The serious case review
The council, NHS, police, the Care Quality Commission and other organisations work together to ensure that vulnerable adults are protected from harm. They asked Margaret Flynn, an adult protection expert, to investigate what had happened at the Winterbourne View hospital. She learnt what had happened from the patients at the
I am going to write a report about the Winterbourne View hospital abuse. I am going to gather information from the internet in order to write my report.
Winterbourne View hospital was a hospital in South Gloucestershire for people with learning disabilities and autism. Winterbourne View hospital was owned by a company called Castlebeck.
In 2011 it came to light serious abuse allegations after eleven ex staff members admitted offences against patients after a nurse had reported to the hospitals manager about the abuse. Nothing changed so he wrote to the care quality commission. He then went to the BBC where the TV program Panorama, undercover care: the abuse exposed was made. An undercover reporter secured employment as a support worker at Winterbourne View hospital. During his five weeks there he filmed his colleagues tormenting, bullying and assaulting the patients. The Panorama program showed compelling images of patients being slapped, restrained under chairs, having their hair pulled and being held down as medication was forced down their throats. Patients at Winterbourne View hospital were bullied, they had water thrown at them and one lady was put in the shower with her clothes still on. They sat and lay on patients so they could not move. Sometimes chairs were used to stop them from getting up.
After the transmission of the BBC program Panorama under cover care: the abuse exposed, which showed Winterbourne View hospital staff mistreating and assaulting the vulnerable adults there as patients, South Gloucestershire adult safeguarding board commissioned a serious case review.
The serious case review
The council, NHS, police, the Care Quality Commission and other organisations work together to ensure that vulnerable adults are protected from harm. They asked Margaret Flynn, an adult protection expert, to investigate what had happened at the Winterbourne View hospital. She learnt what had happened from the patients at the