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According to statitics published by the NHS Information Centre, reported in Community Care, However, 60% of completed referrals were either not substantiated (33%) or deemed inconclusive (27%), with 27% fully and 10% partly substantiated.
The articles states that a quarter of adult abuse referrals in England last year involved allegations against social care staff, official figures published today show.
Social care staff were listed as perpetrators of abuse in 24% of cases where the relationship between the vulnerable adult and the alleged abuser was recorded in 2009-10, the NHS Information Centre statistics revealed.
However, 60% of ...
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According to Community Care 60% of completed referrals were either not substantiated (33%) or deemed inconclusive (27%), with 27% fully and 10% partly substantiated. In almost a third of cases (31%), no further action was taken.
A quarter of adult abuse referrals in England last year involved allegations against social care staff, official figures published today show.
Social care staff were listed as perpetrators of abuse in 24% of cases where the relationship between the vulnerable adult and the alleged abuser was recorded in 2009-10, the NHS Information Centre statistics revealed.
However, 60% of completed referrals were ...
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This extract has been taken from a report that appeared in the Evening Standard on 31st March 2011
A paramedic who was sacked after a patient falsely accused him of rape is suing the London Ambulance Service for unfair dismissal.
The patient, 33, called police an hour after David Gledhill had escorted her back into her home in west London. He told a Croydon employment tribunal that the woman, who had been drinking, made lewd suggestions, partially stripped off and rubbed herself against him.
Mr Gledhill, from Isleworth, said he hoped to clear his name and “restore my ability to work ...
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Extract from Law Commission Web site
Regulation of Healthcare Professionals
The regulatory framework governing the health- and social-care professions has become complex and expensive and requires continual Government intervention to keep it up to date. On 16 February 2011, the Government announced a review of the framework, referring the project to the Law Commission. Accepting the project, Frances Patterson QC, Law Commissioner for Public Law, said:
“The Law Commission is pleased to be conducting this review of the regulatory regime that governs the work and conduct of healthcare and social care professionals. The existing legislative ...
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Parents win legal battle to name doctor who accused them of child abuse
A couple cleared of injuring their baby son have won a legal battle to identify the doctor who gave evidence against them.When Victoria and Jake Ward saw their baby son crying and refusing to feed, they took him to their doctor. When the cause of his pain could not be found, they took him back twice more.
The professional couple were shocked to be told eventually that William had a broken leg. But the drama turned into a nightmare when they were accused of ...
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The Royal College of Nursing is launching a judicial review of a vetting scheme it fears will breach nurses’ human rights and have “catastrophic” consequences for their careers, Nursing Times can reveal.
The RCN believes the scheme breaches nurses’ rights to a fair trial and to privacy
The move also follows concerns the controversial vetting and barring scheme would make nurses overly cautious about comforting or being left alone with patients.
The scheme, introduced last October, is aimed at protecting children and vulnerable adults and will eventually require all nurses to register with the ...
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A judge has called for a review into cases involving infant brain injuries after a mother was kept waiting 18-months before murder charges against her were finally dropped.
Saleha Khatun, 22, who was due to stand trial for the murder of 10-month-old Mohammed, was dramatically freed at the Old Bailey after the prosecution offered no evidence against her.
But Judge Richard Hone and her legal team criticised delays in the case, which they said had robbed her of the chance to grieve properly for her son, whom she always maintained had died after falling out of bed and hitting his head.
Entering a ...
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A woman who accused her gynaecologist of giving her ‘leg buckling orgasms’ on the consulting couch has dramatically withdrawn her case.Bibi Giles’s harassment claim against consultant Angus Thomson was effectively torpedoed when another doctor – a GP – threatened to tell the court that she had pestered him for sex in the past. Mrs Giles withdrew the case yesterday morning and agreed to pay £30,000 in legal costs for Mr Thomson.
Last night the former model, 50, was branded an ‘attention-seeking fantasist’ with an ‘excessive libido’. Mr Thomson, 40, who has been supported by his GP wife Lucy throughout the five-day ...
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There is a very useful article by Julie Fagan, founder member of the Campaign Against Unnecessary Suspensions and Exclusions in the NHS, on the campaign to support Margaret Haywood, the nurse struck off for exposing care failure on national television. The article raises important issues concerning the rights of whistleblowers, patients and employers.
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