NHS Trust project: what changed when the team trained for the ‘first minute’
The referral to a London trust wasn’t about “delivering training” in the abstract. It was about a real ward with real risk, and a team carrying the weight of that risk every shift. A specialist rehabilitation unit sits in that difficult middle ground: frailty, dementia, delirium, neuro, stroke rehab, spinal injury pathways — patients who […]
Care Home Manager feedback: excellent and professional
“Trainer was excellent and professional and made the course enjoyable – was presented very well for all staff. Extremely likely to recommend to any colleagues looking for this training” –> Home Manager (RMN), Silverdale Nursing Home, October 2018 Our contextualised and scenario-based training programme is highly rated and regarded, and we rolled it out with […]
£150,000 fine for Care Home Wheelchair Restraint Strap Death
A private healthcare company was fined £150,000 in January 2012 after admitting its part in the death of an elderly nursing home resident who was strangled by a wheelchair lap belt. Brigid O’Callaghan, known as Vera, was found dead on the morning of October 28, 2005 at Amberley Court Nursing Home in Edgbaston, Birmingham. […]
Care Home Safe Holding: Dementia ward patient found bashed
ABC in Australia is reporting on an inquest that is ongoing in regard to violent attacks by a man in a high-care dementia ward which left one man dead and others in the ward seriously injured and terrified. Charles McCulloch, 94, was found dead in his bed a day after he had moved into a high-care […]