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A hospital or a home? Findings from themed visits to NHS and private sector wards for people with learning disabilities
- Author:
- MENTAL WELFARE COMMISSION FOR SCOTLAND
- Publisher:
- Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 16p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
The Commission undertook a themed visit to all learning disability in-patient units during the 2007-08 visiting programme. The Commission visited 39 facilities across Scotland from 25 October to 7 November 2007. Prior to the visits, health boards were asked to provide some information about the wards in their areas. Staff were asked a series of questions about the people living in the ward on the day of the visit and about how care and treatment was provided. Commission staff met with individual patients and some relatives and carers. The Commission was particularly interested in seeing how assessment of individual need was taking place and the ways identified needs were being met. Commission staff also looked for evidence within files that would indicate how individual people and carers were being involved in decisions about current and future care. Key recommendations are outlined.
Going into hospital
- Authors:
- HOLLINS Sheila, AVIS Angie, CHEVERTON Samantha
- Publishers:
- Gaskell, St. George's Hospital Medical School
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 50p.,illus.,list of orgs.
- Place of publication:
- London
Part of a series of booklets designed to help people with learning difficulties to understand and cope with major events in their lives. Shows what happens when a person has to go into hospital for an operation. The first part is in pictures and the second contains material to support the pictures for carers and people working with people with learning difficulties, as well as for hospital staff.
Better lives: a review of the quality of life of the people living at Barcourt Hospital and proposals for change
- Author:
- NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT TEAM
- Publisher:
- National Development Team
- Publication year:
- 1990
- Pagination:
- 31p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Reports on an inspection.
Institutional care and the mentally handicapped: the mental handicap hospital
- Author:
- ALASZEWSKI Andy
- Publisher:
- Croom Helm
- Publication year:
- 1986
- Pagination:
- 268p. bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Closing a hospital: the Darenth Park Project
- Authors:
- KORMAN Nancy, GLENNERSTER Howard
- Publisher:
- Bedford Square Press
- Publication year:
- 1985
- Pagination:
- 156p.,tables.
- Place of publication:
- London
Guidelines for one-to-one advocacy in mental handicap hospitals
- Author:
- ADVOCACY ALLIANCE
- Publisher:
- Advocacy Alliance
- Publication year:
- 1984
- Pagination:
- 19p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Review of compliance: Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust: Durham Rd
- Author:
- CARE QUALITY COMMISSION
- Publisher:
- Care Quality Commission
- Publication year:
- 2011
- Pagination:
- 14p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Durham Road, part of Tees, Esk and Wear Valley NHS Foundation Trust, was inspected as part of a targeted inspection programme in hospitals that care for people with learning disabilities. Durham Road provides a respite service for patients with learning disabilities and a service for the assessment and treatment adults with learning disabilities. The inspection was to assess how well they experience effective, safe and appropriate care treatment and support that meets their needs and protects their rights; and whether they are protected from abuse. Durham Road was found to meet all the essential standards of quality and safety reviewed.
Review of compliance: Cambian Learning Disabilities Limited: Rainham Farm Lodge
- Author:
- CARE QUALITY COMMISSION
- Publisher:
- Care Quality Commission
- Publication year:
- 2012
- Pagination:
- 17p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This review of compliance is from Farm Lodge, an independent hospital run by Cambian Learning Disabilities Limited. Farm lodge is an independent hospital registered to provide assessment or medical treatment for persons detained under the Mental Health Act 1983, diagnostic and screening procedures and treatment of disease, disorder or injury. The service is for six adults with a learning disability and additional diagnoses, who are liable to be detained under the Mental Health Act 1983. Most of the standards were met; however the ‘standards of caring for people safely and protecting them from harm’ was noted as in need of improvement.
Review of compliance: Partnerships in Care Limited: Stockton Hall
- Author:
- CARE QUALITY COMMISSION
- Publisher:
- Care Quality Commission
- Publication year:
- 2012
- Pagination:
- 18p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This review of compliance is from Stockton Hall Hospital, owned and managed by Partnerships in Care and located in the village of Stockton-on-the-Forest about five miles from the centre of the city of York. It provides medium secure psychiatric facilities for adult men suffering from mental illness, personality disorder or a mild to moderate learning disability. The hospital is a purpose-built facility registered to accommodate 112 patients, all of whom are liable to be detained under the 1983 Mental Health Act. There were six wards capable of accommodating between sixteen and twenty four patients. This report focuses on Kyme ward, as it was the ward accommodating patients with learning disabilities. All the patients on Kyme ward were detained under the Mental Health Act 1983 and all were male. The report found that Kyme Ward at Stockton Hall was meeting all the essential standards of quality and safety reviewed, but, to maintain this, suggested some improvements are made.
Review of compliance: Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust: assessment and intervention service: The Birling Centre
- Author:
- CARE QUALITY COMMISSION
- Publisher:
- Care Quality Commission
- Publication year:
- 2012
- Pagination:
- 18p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This review of compliance is from The Birling Centre, Kent and Medway NHS, an inpatient facility for people with learning disabilities who may also have a mental illness and severe challenging behaviour. Nine patients were using the service at the time of the visit. The unit is registered to provide: assessment or medical treatment for persons detained under the Mental Health Act 1983; treatment of disease, disorder or injury; and diagnostic and screening procedures. The report found that the Birling Centre was not meeting one or more essential standards. Improvements were needed in the following areas: there were major concerns that outcome 4 needed improvements – ‘people should get safe and appropriate care that meets their needs and supports their rights’; and outcome 7 was adequate – ‘people should be protected from abuse and staff should respect their human rights’.