Patient’s death: How Health failed
Friday 31st December 2010, 2:59PM GMT.
Health have apologised to the family
JERSEY’S health authority has admitted a catalogue of serious failings in the care of a mentally ill patient who died.
At an inquest into the death of Anthony Huet yesterday senior members of Hospital staff admitted that in the days leading up to his death, the 74-year-old, who suffered from schizophrenia, had been denied his antipsychotic medication, was kept on ‘nil by mouth’ for far too long and had waited days to be seen by specialists because it was the weekend.
The Health and Social Services department issued an apology yesterday to Mr Huet’s family and said that a number of changes had been made to patient care as a result of the case.
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I am so sorry for this mans family, no amount of apologising from health or health minister anne pryke can ever put this right.
Yet health, in its infinite wisdom have cut mental health services back further as recently reported in the JEP, this will only lead to further ‘incidents’ within the mental health department and with cut backs throughout health as a whole, more ‘incidents’ of this nature will happen, it is only a matter of time.
When will someone at health realise in this day and age that money has to be invested in nursing staff, doctors, patient care, equipment etc, all the cutbacks do is create delays and errors and additional work where it is not needed.
I would have thought the minister for health would appreciate this as she was once one of the nursing staff herself!
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Nobody gets it right all of the time but with £550M in the bank there’s no excuse for this. It’s unfair for Health to shoulder all of the blame, the funding problem stems from elsewhere in the States.
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We’ll just have to make sure we only get ill or injured during business hours from now on I suppose…
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We don’t have a good hospital any more.
Incredibly, the hospital will not entertain feedback from the public unless a complaint is made. Unless you wish to frame the feedback in the form of a complaint and allow a panel to be formed at great public expense, the hospital administration will have nothing to do with your observation.
Result: people are discouraged from providing feedback or, in the alternative, are encouraged to invoke a complaints procedure which will further stretch public resources.
This is why things like the above happen. Will the hospital publish the “changes to patient care” which it has made in the wake of this awful case? I think not.
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When you think of the size of the hospital budget…all the experts on a Thousand pounds a day….and they can’t look after one peoor chap who was in trouble…how can they let him home with someone elses medication.which obviously meant the other person did not get the right stuff either,and to have taken him off his psychotropic meds and left him high and dry..one can only imagine the distress endured….heads should roll.
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