care in the uk - a disgrace

[Orang Utan]

Jack Thorne was very passionate about and supportive of carers this morning Desert Island Discs - Jack Thorne, screenwriter - BBC Sounds

What music is he into?

 

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I heard him more than his choices. The only thing I remember was a Jean Michel Jarre track and spasticus autisticus.

 

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No tracks shown but sums it up Jack Thorne on ‘raw’ interviews with care home staff for drama about pandemic

 

[Orang Utan]

I heard him more than his choices. The only thing I remember was a Jean Michel Jarre track and spasticus autisticus.

sounds right up my street - I try to avoid the dull pedestrian choices of most of the guests - U2, RHCP etc - they usually give you a tracklist so you don't have to waste your time, but I couldn't see one on BBC Sounds

 

[Orang Utan]

No tracks shown but sums it up Jack Thorne on ‘raw’ interviews with care home staff for drama about pandemic

I've still only managed to get through the first half hour of that. I do mean go back to it, but it's a tough watch, esp if you've had relatives in care,

 

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I expect I will listen again from the start. Forget the choices of music...

 

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A job that few can do or want to do. So desperately sad. ‘An insult’: care home bosses decry £60 payouts from Javid’s fund to retain staff

 

[hitmouse]

Fwiw, petition about the Glasgow foster care stuff here:

Glasgow City Council: end the freeze! Give foster carers the financial security they need

Foster care workers look after some of the most vulnerable children in our communities, providing them with safe homes and a supportive environment, but right now the system is failing. Foster carers are unable to continue with the financial burden. In Glasgow, the situation has become...

actionnetwork.org

 

[GarveyLives]

Elderly people and dementia patients put at risk of Covid by home care provider (Greenwrite Healthcare)

 

[Shechemite]

There’s money to be made if you know how

Australia's Ramsay Health Care to buy mental healthcare group Elysium for $1 bln

Australia's Ramsay Health Care Ltd said on Monday it would buy Britain's Elysium Healthcare Ltd for 775 million pounds ($1.03 billion) as it looks to expand its presence in mental healthcare services.

www.reuters.com

 

[hitmouse]

Again, for whatever good it'll do, if anyone feels like signing a petition here's one:

Greater Manchester Care Workers Demand A Pay Rise

Can you sign the petition to call for all #GreaterManchester care workers to receive a pay rise to at least the real Living Wage? #WeDemandAPayRise #DoesGreaterManchesterCare? https://action.unison.org.uk/page/93129/

action.unison.org.uk

 

[GarveyLives]

"A resident with dementia was 'mocked by a member of staff' and another sat at the dining table with 'faeces under their finger nails' at a Nottingham care home, a shocking report has found ..."

Resident with dementia 'mocked by member of staff' at 'inadequate' Nottingham care home (Beechdale Manor Care Home)

 

[Shechemite]

“The average time patients spend in specialist hospitals for people with autism and learning disabilities is more than two years, according to NHS statistics. For some, the stay is much longer still.

Tony Hickmott is 41 years old and has been in one such institution for 18 years. His mother, Pam, says he has been well enough for discharge since 2003.

Every Thursday, she and her husband Roy make the 180-mile round trip to see their son in Cedar House, a 40-bedroom secure unit near Canterbury.

Since his admission, Mr Hickmott has suffered injuries including three broken arms, black eyes and extensive bruising.”


Waiting to leave: why hundreds of adults are languishing in hospital unnecessarily

 

[Shechemite]

Family of autistic man plan legal challenge over care conditions

Mother says her 24-year-old son’s care at a hospital in Cheshire is ‘worse than being in prison’

www.theguardian.com

 

[Shechemite]

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[Shechemite]

Family of autistic man plan legal challenge over care conditions

Mother says her 24-year-old son’s care at a hospital in Cheshire is ‘worse than being in prison’

www.theguardian.com

Some good news New hope for Patient A as a house is found

 

[Shechemite]

Nurse watched woman self-harm and said, 'she'll faint before she dies'

Paddy McKee (pictured) was shown walking down the street in a 2015 image, just a year after Sally Mays took her own life in Hull.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[GarveyLives]

May 2017: Family of man burned alive in Bupa care home blast £10,000 compensation as an 'insult

January 2022: BUPA Care Services-owned Manley Court Care Home record million pound fine after wheelchair-bound resident burns to death

(Source: David Skyers)​

Investigators found that, whilst a smoking risk assessment had been carried out for The Late Mr Skyers, Bupa had not assessed his use of emollient creams in that context. Additionally, apparent burn marks indicative of previous incidents were found on Mr Skyers' clothing after his death. Care home staff stated they had been unaware of this and, had they been so aware, would have completed more regular checks.

Prior to his death, The Late Mr Skyers' clothes had become flammable as a result of the emollient creams used to treat him.

 

[GarveyLives]

"One in five homes specialising in dementia are rated “inadequate” or “requires improvement” by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), inspection reports show. Some pose such a serious risk to people with dementia – including filthy conditions, poor infection control and untrained staff – that inspectors have ordered them to be placed into special measures ..."

Hundreds of dementia care homes found to be substandard in England

 

[Shechemite]

Specialist mental health unit failures exposed by patients

Specialist mental health unit failures exposed by patients

Patients say they’ve been placed in unsafe environments, often far from home.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Chilli.s]

Hundreds of dementia care homes found to be substandard in England

Yet still charge top prices to fail to deliver

 

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Carers stealing large amounts of cash, refusing to wear PPE, crap response from care company You and Yours - Inflation rises, Home care failures, Dessert shops - BBC Sounds

 

[GarveyLives]

Three 'care home' workers have been jailed for 18 months for mistreating a vulnerable man:

Care home staff jailed for degrading acts to vulnerable man

(Source: Gloucestershire Police)​

Sentencing Daniel Gower, 23, Laura Paul (above), 29 and Sean Watkins (above), 23 at Gloucester Crown Court, Judge Ian Lawrie said their behaviour was "an affront to humanity".

 

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I read that last night. As if what they did isn't bad enough, the bastards filmed it!

 

[Shechemite]

Maybe IC3D can suggest some training?

 

[mojo pixy]

That's not really fair, and obviously nobody properly trained would do that. But it's not really about training is it? Sarcasm aside. It's about empathy, compassion, morals. These fuckers did not have that, clearly, and caring for vulnerable people will always draw in a minority like that because some people want to have power over others. It's shit.

So proper recruitment and training would probably weed them out, except it's a low status job that many places have a very low bar for, if you have a clean dbs and can read, write and count, you're in. A lot of places have a pretty mean culture where kindness is valued less than routine and efficiency is the watchword. It's a systemic problem, and a social one.

I don't know, it's shit, unacceptable, disgusting, that people can and do, do stuff like this. And that staff would cover for each other (which is a crime in itself). I like to think by far the majority would whistleblow in a moment if they saw or heard about something like that happening, and certainly wouldn't do it themselves. I hope I'm right, but more, I wish society didn't treat disabled and ill and elderly people as a burden to be hauled about and wiped by basically whoever offers to do it. Emotional intelligence is not tested at interview, unless the organisation bothers to invest time and money in its staff, to find and/or teach some. And those are few and far between.

A big problem too, is that a lot of people who live in care services just don't get listened to .. systemically, socially .. and then naturally it emerges personally too.

tl;dr .. recruit decent people and check their decency at some point along the way. More people with a goddamn conscience should try doing care as a job.

 

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Exhausted workers lift the lid on Greater Manchester's crumbling social care

Grandparents begging for carers to stay longer, unqualified workers and a staffing crisis are some of the factors workers are having to deal with

www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk

 

[Chilli.s]

Exhausted workers lift the lid on Greater Manchester's crumbling social care

Grandparents begging for carers to stay longer, unqualified workers and a staffing crisis are some of the factors workers are having to deal with

www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk

It's fuckin discraceful, only £10.50 ph wage to do a job like that. Where's the moral backbone in our society to get this changed (leveled up as it were)? Something needs to be done

 

[GarveyLives]

A 'care worker' has been jailed for life after he was caught raping a 99-year-old dementia patient as her family watched on helplessly via a hidden camera:

Blackpool care worker raped elderly woman as family watched in horror on spycam

(Source: as stated in image)

Philip Carey has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 10 years at at Preston Crown Court.​

 

[Shechemite]

Report here:

5 Minutes On - Detained in hospital - a sister's decades long fight to bring her brother home - BBC Sounds

"We never give up" - our fight for our brother detained for 34 years.

www.bbc.co.uk