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An inspection of Chilton Meadows, a care home for elderly people with dementia in Stowmarket, Suffolk, in March 2021, found a number of residents with distressed behaviours including one using a walking frame the wrong way round. The home also had radiator pipes carrying scalding hot water with no protective covering to protect residents who might have fallen on them.
Chilton Meadows is run by Bupa (British United Provident Association), a UK based international healthcare company. Founded in 1947, Bupa was originally a health insurance company. It now owns and runs clinics, hospitals and care homes in Brazil, Chile, Hong Kong, Ireland, Mexico, New Zealand, Poland, Spain, Turkey and the United States. All told, some 20,000 elderly people live in its facilities, with about a third of that number in Australia and a third in England.
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BLAME culture in maternity services is preventing safety lessons being learnt, MPs have warned, as they call for urgent action to save 1,000 more babies a year.
Today’s wide-ranging report by the health & social care committee on maternity safety in England reveals evidence of a “defensive culture, dysfunctional teams [and] safety lessons not learned.”
The cross-party group, which includes Labour MPs Barbara Keeley and Sarah Owen, found that more than a third of Care Quality Commission ratings for maternity services identified requirements to improve safety larger than in any other specialty.
And a separate report commissioned from an expert panel set up by the committee charges that the government’s overall progress in key areas such as safety, staffing and personalised care has been far too slow and requires improvement.