31-May-16 Article by: Sue Learner, editor Families trapped injuries in Call Winter Vista for urgent measures for people with a learning...
Article by: Sue Learner, editor
Families trapped injuries in Call Winter Vista for urgent measures for people with a learning disability in the stationary units.
They joined to charities in an open letter signed outlining their concerns to rate "very slow" change for the people to improve care with a learning disability.
Census disability in 2015 show learning that exposed little change since the Panorama program, the abuse winter view, taken even caught with 3,500 people with a learning disability in the clinics, despite the government and NHS commit people with learning disabilities in their to move communities.
Other census figures have shown that patients hospital care received, 72 percent had received antipsychotic drugs, but only 28.5 per cent were recorded with a psychotic disorder and 1670 had to learn or multiple incidents (self-mutilation, accidents physical violence, forced or seclusion) in the three months prior to the survey. It also shows that people are 670,100 kilometers or more from home, an increase of 17 percent over the previous year.
open letter
The open letter to the Prime Minister said: "We, the relatives of the victims of violence in Winter View Hospital writing our anger bring within five years about the lack of change from day to express Panorama exposed what happened to our loved ones.
"Despite the clear commitments and plans of the government and the NHS currently about 3500 people, including 160 children, are still in places like Winter Vista caught, often hundreds of miles from home, and a risk of abuse. Even people died ,
"The exchange rate has with learning difficulties and their families continue to suffer very slowly, and people like it. Government and the NHS should stop this outdated model of hospital care and inappropriate use of force to make insulation and antipsychotics that is life devastating.
Signatories of the letter are Steve Sollars, Ann Earley, Wendy Fiander, Claire and Emma Garrod Dr Margaret Flynn, the author of Winter view of serious case review, Jan Tregelles, General Manager of Mencap and Vivien Cooper, CEO of the Foundation challenging behavior.
The son of Ann Earley Simon was one of the residents who have been abused in Winter Vista. Simon now lives again in their local community that receives good care that suits him.
overview
"Only when we visit to two of the team received Panorama I learned what had happened to Simon and other residents of Winter Vista. We were told that Simon had been abused and had pictures to prove and documents that I always remember the to see photos -. I was speechless disbelief, cruelty, physical abuse, psychological torture and the systematic nature of to see all ..
"Five years Simon is doing much better luck. He lives at home and has grown to become a central element of their community. Simon is now safe and to live a full and happy life. All this and the attention package now costs about half as much as he did when he, in winter Vista was "Ann Earley said.
He said he is devastated that "five years after the Winter view people with a learning disability units are still caught in the hospital, which was Simon and is for families a system of care are forced to fight, that is out of date. It breaks my every time I see the heart a picture of someone who is locked away from home or hear the tortured voice of a father. "
Mencap Foundation Defiant Behavior
January Tregelles, General Manager of Mencap and Vivien Cooper echoed CEO of Challenge behavioral Foundation, the feelings of it was taken, said: "Five years later, despite all the promises, reports and Winter Vista the action plans, the number of people with a learning disability in the stationary units has not changed, and it is regrettable that the number of children has increased in these areas over the last year.
"People with a learning disability and their families have to achieve nearly five years of failure by the national and local government and the NHS suffered a significant change for 3500 people in the stationary units. Many of them are away from home at a higher risk of abuse and neglect and their families continue to fight for their relatives at home.
"NHS announced in England recently, a three-year closure program. This means that the appropriate support should be designed for people with a learning disability and behavior with respect to the community, into question. But that does not say anything, to families in the world are changing. "
MP Norman Lamb
Rt Hon Norman Lamb MP, former Minister of State for care and support called the failure of a transition from one to achieve "shocking indictment of our health care system and welfare."
He said: "When I Minister of attention was always deeply impressed was from stories of families whose relatives were trapped view in places like winter, I spent much of my time trying to make one difference, trying to make the system more efficient the. right support to get into local communities. in March 2015, we also published proposals in a Green Paper new powers to give people with learning disabilities and their families, to determine where they were treated, and the power to make decisions in question attention . Unfortunately, the government has not yet regulated by law to introduce these forces and they intend not seem to do so in the near future.
"It's very frustrating, five years after the Winter view we are still to see the change that is necessary for this group of vulnerable people.
"It is a shocking indictment of our health system and the social that an error of this type of action change was. People need to be moved from these places and caution within the community in which they are able, the way they choose and their families to live. "
