Daily Mail priory hospital

[spartan300]

Has anybody read the story about the two so called carers slapping and abusing a severly brain damaged patient at this Hospital,

the cost of treatment there is three thousand pounds a week, it makes you sick to read, your thoughts on this please.

[cat3]

This is a difficult one John. People in care (whether paid for or not) are there for protection and should never, ever be subjected to abuse of any kind. But so long as they are cared for by carers with inadequate training and/or low compassion it will continue.

There will be times when carers are driven to their wits end by difficult patients either because they haven't received adequate training in overcoming their frustrations or they don't have the necessary temperament for care-work in the first place. So the responsibility lies with their employers, who often don't have a clue as to the suitability of staff, either because they themselves are unqualified to judge, or because they simply don't care and are concerned only with keeping up required staffing levels.

Until we get a government (ha ha) who is prepared to pour money into stricter monitoring( and even in-house surveillance within these institutions) this frightening situation will continue.

The daughter of my friend is severely autistic and, as she has become older and stronger, her parents can no longer control her aggression/violence at home. But my friend has spent most of her life seeking good care for her, knowing that she will test the patience of any carer and who was, in fact, abused for a long period until someone 'blew the whistle'. Her daughter would wrestle people to the ground and pull out their hair, not to mention daubing faeces everywhere, so it takes very special carers to cope with such challenging behaviour. Now she's 'fortunate' enough to be somewhere which uses constant close-circuit surveillance which, I believe, is the only sure way to eliminate this heartbreaking climate of abuse.

[vjones2 in reply to cat3]

im going back about 9/10 years nw but there was same thing in a manchester home but i read that myself they were locking them in roomd but worse bit wa 1 of carers pulled this elderly finger nails out shed alsimers made me feel sick thought now with new safe guard rules laws this sort thing had stopted im rong

[RogerCMerriman in reply to vjones2]

It's never been within the rules, be that company/ business or legal. People got away with it in places that other staff didn't report and or organisations didn't care to act.

[spartan300]

have you read the story, I understand what you say but every thing was recorded on video. no excuses?

[cat3 in reply to spartan300]

No I haven't John. I'll have a look for it on line.

[cat3 in reply to cat3]

Right, so the video recorder was planted by the lad's parents and he's now been spared further abuse thanks to their vigilance. But if it was common practice for hospitals/homes to use surveillance throughout patient's quarters, then all patients would be safe and 'carers' would need to be on their best behaviour.

I'm talking about cameras in constant working order with impartial people employed to monitor activity 24/7. It wouldn't be beyond the financial scope of any government and it would vastly improve quality of life for so many.

Sadly, any government these days is just another big business out to make a profit, so there'd be nothing in it for them.

These two women need to be made to apologise to the patient and his relatives, pay compensation to them, be blacklisted from the profession and serve prison sentences. Maybe in prison they would get a dose of their own medicine.

[spartan300]

I agree with you cat3 ,and maybe in prison they would also get a slap.

[RogerCMerriman]

I work in care, quite apart from the abuse, that's a appalling personal care, I assume they either didn't know or care what they where doing, I work with folks with complex and profound needs, it is possible nia easy when you know how to move some one on a bed to have personal care with out yanking someone around.