Staff using derogatory language and records falsified at failing Mirfield care home.

 http://www.examiner.co.uk/news/west-yorkshire-news/staff-using-derogatory-language-records-12565531

Woodlands Care Home, Mirfield,Huddersfield,Ian.
Speciality Care Limited, ( REIT Homes )
Responsible Person Maureen Royston.
This home is under the general banner of Four Seasons.
This is Maureen Claire Royston,MD,etc. Big figure at FSHC.
Link thanks to Karl Womack.
Home rated as inadequate and placed in special measures, latest CQC Inspection Report Inadequate in Three Key Areas,Requiring Improvement in two more. Fourth consecutive non compliant inspection report. Six out of nine inspection reports non compliant. No new admissions.
 
Just another failing care home in a high incidence area. Been going on since 2002 around, Huddersfield, Halifax,Kirklees.
 
Nothing improves, or if it does not for long.


Patient records were falsified and staff used derogatory language at a failing Mirfield care home.
Woodlands Care Home in Sands Lane has been placed in special measures after being rated ‘inadequate’ by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
The home, to 55 people during the inspection in December, was given the lowest rating for its safety, management and its compassion towards patients.
It was given amber ‘requires improvement’ ratings by the government health watchdog for effectiveness and responsiveness.
The report said: “Although some staff treated people with kindness and compassion, showing respect for their privacy and dignity, other staff did not.
“Some staff used derogatory terms and spoke over people to each other.

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“Some staff failed to recognise when people’s dignity was being compromised.”
The report noted other safety and dignity issues.
It said: “People were not always provided with safe care and treatment.
“Some people were not assisted to move regularly and some people did not receive adequate assistance to meet their continence needs.”
CQC inspectors found that residents’ care records were incomplete – and some had been ‘falsified.’
The report said: “Some care records were inaccurate and incomplete and, in some cases, records were falsified. Audits were not robust and did not identify some areas for improvement.”

Woodlands Care Home, Sandy Lane, Mirfield

CQC inspectors discovered that admissions to one of the home’s four units had been suspended.
The report said: “Admissions to ‘Thornhill’ had been suspended by the local authority due to safeguarding concerns on this unit in relation to staffing, the role of one to one staff and the management of medicines.”
The CQC raised concerns about staffing shortages at the home.
The report said: “Despite a dependency tool being used to help determine staff numbers, there were not always sufficient numbers of staff to meet people’s needs.”

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A spokesperson for Woodlands Care Home said: “The wellbeing of people entrusted to our care is our priority and we are sorry that Woodlands Care Home has fallen below the standards that we expect all of our homes to provide.
“We are implementing a comprehensive programme of improvements that is being overseen by our home manager supported by the regional senior management team working in close liaison with Kirklees Council and the Care Quality Commission.
“We have also held meetings with residents and relatives to tell them about the improvement programme.
“Before the inspection we had already identified areas where we needed to improve.”

Kincora campaigner's fury after abuse evidence is censored.

Tthe man who tried to expose historical sex abuse at the notorious Kincora boys' home in Belfast in the 1970s has criticised a major inquiry after it redacted part of his evidence. 

Former Army captain and intelligence officer Colin Wallace, whose attempts to blow the whistle on the abuse of the young boys were thwarted by superiors, said the censored information undermines the Historical Institutional Abuse inquiry (HIA).

He refused to testify before it last year, because he said it did not have adequate powers to get answers. Instead, Mr Wallace submitted a 45-page document about Kincora.
However, two sections were redacted - blacked out - before the material was placed on the HIA website. The redacted information, published by Lobster Magazine, includes details about senior figures from public life.

Mr Wallace said it was "strange and disappointing" that important information was kept out of the inquiry and from the public.

"This report has illustrated the weaknesses of the system, because there are lost files and material that I had in 1973 that they haven't found and the stuff that we did give has been excluded," he said.
"I feel for the victims, because this is very unsatisfactory."
Some of the concealed information centred around Sir Knox Cunningham, a former parliamentary secretary to former Prime Minister Harold Macmillan.

The barrister from Northern Ireland was also an Ulster Unionist MP for South Antrim.

It details how there were clear links between Knox Cunningham and William McGrath, a notorious paedophile, who was jailed for child abuse at Kincora.

Colin Wallace

Part of the redacted information had already been published in the book Let The Petals Fall, by Robin Bryans.
It revealed how Cunningham was a close friend of Belfast painter Sidney Smith, who was one of a group of paedophiles on both sides of the border.
"Knox never hesitated to flex his legal muscles for illegal purposes as a Queen's Counsel," the book claims.
"Knox could also cite chapter and verse about Sidney Smith's similar immunity from prosecution over his years of sex with unconsenting children as young as three years."

Mr Wallace said that although the sexual abuse allegations relating to Sidney Smith pre-date the Kincora sexual abuse allegations, the links between McGrath, Cunningham and others make them relevant to the HIA Inquiry.

"There are important witnesses that were never approached by the inquiry and having taken part in the Saville inquiry I was amazed the HIA was relying on the unsigned statements people had given back in 1982," he said.
"That's not acceptable.

"Knox Cunningham did have connections to John McKeague who had links to Kincora and Peter Montgomery (the gay lover of Russian spy Sir Anthony Blunt). The intelligence service must have been keeping a close eye on them.
"What I find odd is that information that has been published in one inquiry has later been redacted by the HIA.

"The illogical nature of what the HIA has done is something I find hard to understand.
"I don't think that account fitted the HIA view, so they left it out. This undermines the work of the HIA inquiry.
"The inquiry has not helped victims because it has left so many things up in the air.

"Victims have been waiting for the HIA to answer their questions and they have not answered their questions - it has raised more questions. The HIA is not the full story."
A spokeswoman for the HIA inquiry said: "The inquiry only redacted material that related to national security, protected the identity of those whose safety might be at risk, or had no relevance to the work of the inquiry. The inquiry does not intend to comment on the reasons for specific redactions."

 http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/kincora-campaigners-fury-after-abuse-evidence-is-censored-35432535.html