Our Glorious NHS (The Wonder of the World it is!), providing opportunities for all. You no longer have to travel to Baghdad or Gitmo to be mistreated.
It included "kicking, shoving and dragging, belittling, goading and
mocking … withholding food, giving cold showers, overzealous or
premature use of restraint, poor attitude towards people who used
services, poor atmosphere, roughness, care not provided, lack of
dignity and respect and no privacy".
One patient was tied to a wheelchair for 16 hours, some were drugged.
Light switches or taps were removed from their rooms. Patients’ money
was misused.
Where did this happen? Some interrogation centre? In the back of some dark and dank police station? No:
The investigation, which included unannounced visits,
focused on Budock Hospital, near Falmouth, home to 18 adults, two other
homes in Bodmin and Falmouth, four children’s units and 46 houses
occupied by groups of up to four people with learning disabilities.
Five
members of support staff have been sacked by the trust and one nurse
has resigned. During the year-long investigation, the chief executive
of the trust, Tony Gardner, resigned.
The report
said that treatment units had "effectively become long-term homes"
providing unregulated and unmonitored social care. "In one instance, a
person who was admitted for a short stay following a cataract operation
died there several years later."
Aren’t we lucky to have the NHS, which takes care of us all so well?
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