Winterbourne View National

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Winterbourne ViewNational Regional Overview
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• On 31st May, a TV programme showed members of
  staff hitting, shouting, and hurting people with
  learning disabilities at Winterbourne View
  hospital
• This is called abuse
• Abuse is wrong
• No-one should be abused

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• Winterbourne View Hospital closed on 24th June

• The Police and Safeguarding Board are finding out
  what happened and why the staff abused people
• This is called an investigation

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• The Department of Health wants to find out what
  happened at Winterbourne View from all the people
  and organisations that had something to do with
  the patients at the hospital

• What reports will the Department of Health look
  at?
• The Care Quality Commission report
• The South Gloucestershire Council Serious Case
  Review
• The NHS Serious Untoward Incident Investigations
• Other cases where things have gone wrong before

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• Some people with learning disabilities, from our
  region, were at Winterbourne View Hospital
• Some people were at other hospitals owned by the
  same company, Castlebeck
• People from our region, who were at Winterbourne
  View Hospital, have now moved

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• It is very important to check that people with
  learning disabilities are safe if they are having
  treatment in hospitals like Winterbourne View

• It is also important that the commissioners know
  how many people with learning disabilities are
  being looked after a long way from their family
  home
• These are called out of area placements
• We have asked commissioners to check these two
  things
• When the commissioners have checked, we will ask
  them to send us what they found out
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• South Central have asked people with learning
  disabilities, family carers and MENCAP to help us
• They will check that commissioners are making
  sure people are safe and supported in the way
  they want (person centred care)

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• Winterbourne View
• Not individualised or person centred
• Out of area
• No outcomes
• Expensive care
• Institutional
• Unclear responsibilities
• Poor communication between agencies

• Government policy
• Individualised and person centred
• Local care
• Outcome focused
• Value for money
• Well co ordinated care jointly commissioned
• Not institutional
• Community based
• Open

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• We will write a report
• We will share the report with Partnership Boards
  and lots of other organisations explaining what
  we have found and what we will be doing to
  improve