Category Archives: Carers
Norman Lamb MP responds to the Francis Report
Norman Lamb MP writes…The government will act in response to the Francis Report
Over the course of four years at Mid Staffordshire hospital, hundreds of patients suffered from appalling neglect and mistreatment. Relatives that voiced concerns were ignored; staff that tried to speak up were silenced. It was a shocking betrayal of trust of patients and their families.
Yesterday Robert Francis QC published his report into the Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust. The public inquiry lasted more than two years, heard over 250 witness statements, considered over one million pages of documentary evidence, and has produced a report nearly two thousand pages long. It makes 290 separate recommendations.
The story of Mid Staffs, the report says, is one of “terrible and unnecessary suffering of hundreds of people who were failed by a system which ignored the warning signs of poor care and put corporate self interest and cost control ahead of patients and their safety.” The overriding message is the need for a culture change across the NHS to make sure that patients always come first.
This will shake your ideas about responsibility – very moving
A Life Beyond Dementia
http://youtu.be/PCi65x07vRw
Published on Feb 1, 2013
Throughout the world, families? lives are changed immeasurably as a consequence of DEMENTIA. But as with all aspects of our seemingly complex lives, things are not what they seem. It has always been possible to see the very same circumstance through the depth of a wiser gaze.
Lives are transformed through such a gaze. My hope is that Olga?s experience will change the very sight you place on your own circumstance. And in doing so, change your circumstance.
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Campaigning for Justice after the harrowing death of her mother
Mum’s death meant I HAD to fight for justice, says woman who spearheaded campaign after the death of her mother at Stafford Hospital
By Julie Bailey
PUBLISHED: 22:37, 6 February 2013 | UPDATED: 08:55, 7 February 2013
Long fight: Julie Bailey, who has campaigned for justice at Stafford Hospital since her mother Bella died there in 2007
After the harrowing death of her mother at Stafford Hospital, Julie Bailey campaigned to bring those responsible to account. Yesterday, her courage was finally vindicated.
The other night, I had a recurring dream – one which comes back to haunt me regularly, and leaves me sweat-drenched, shaken and bereft.
A nurse is standing in front of me, hands planted firmly on her hips, refusing to fetch the drugs which will save my mother’s life. Mum is gasping for breath, her rheumy eyes gazing at me in terror and her nails digging into my hand.
The nurse is ignoring her dying gasps, but is shouting at me instead. ‘I’ll decide when to call a doctor,’ she screams.
Then, without fail, I wake up and remember that most of my dream did happen. But in reality, no doctor was fetched. My mother died within hours – in a Third World hellhole known as Stafford Hospital.
Yesterday, the long-awaited report into failings at the hospital found that between 400 and 1,200 patients died needlessly.
My 86-year-old mother Bella was one of them. She passed away on November 8, 2007, and from the moment I lost her, I’ve fought to expose the indifference, cruelty and neglect which I witnessed over eight horrendous weeks when I refused to leave her side in the ward.
Mum was admitted to Stafford Hospital that September with a hernia. When I left her, I asked the nurse if she could be given something for her pain. But when I returned the next morning, Mum was agitated.
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