Serious life ending Sexual assault on a stroke ward

Doctors are NOT being struck off, in cases where it seems they should be, and not getting proportionate punishments, according to the Radio 4 BBC news this morning.

I have no words. Rest in peace Valerie.

And another awful situation at Blackpool Vic I saw in the news. I’m utterly disgusted.

Amal Bose, senior heart surgeon “with a god complex”, has been jailed for six years for sexually assaulting female hospital staff between 2017 and 2022.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g52g7lv4no.amp

It will be permanent. It’s a striking off, not a suspension.

evil, evil man and a disgrace to the nursing profession.

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https://archive.is/sBS3p

If anyone wants to know more about the incident where a girl died by suicide after being left alone:

A 14-year-old girl who was supposed to be under constant supervision at a psychiatric hospital died after being left alone by an agency worker with a false identity.

Ruth Szymankiewicz, who suffered from an eating disorder, was a patient at Huntercombe Hospital — also known as Taplow Manor — near Maidenhead in Berkshire when she was left unattended by the care worker on February 12, 2022.
The girl had been placed under strict one-to-one supervision following a self-harming incident ten days before her death, a jury inquest at Buckinghamshire coroner’s court was told on Monday.

The worker, who was using the fake name Ebo Acheampong, fled to Ghana after learning that Ruth had died following his first shift at the hospital.

Ian Wade KC, the assistant coroner, told the court that Szymankiewicz carried out an act of self-harm during the 15 minutes she was left unattended. She was found unconscious and died two days later at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford.

Continues in The Times (archive link)

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It's sadly unsurprising that her death was tried to be covered up. Until 2020, there was an upper age limit on the statistics for DV as though older women can't also be victims.

Good God.

That poor woman.

How on earth did the hospital fail her in so many different ways?

Well let’s hope it’s permanent but it doesn’t really negate things he’s done and possibly have done. Is it ok to steal strong meds in the nhs as if you ete caught selling those types of drugs on the street the offence with be possibly prison. Really unsettles me that it appears they have adopted a child with his husband.

Matthew Pover is struck off the register, so won’t be working as a nurse.

No words, just evil.

I hope karma gets him good. One day soon.

Strong agree. On his Facebook he is happily posing with what appears to be his husband and child and sausage dog. Giving the impression he’s a happy family man. Yet he is a nurse who can’t tell what is blood, steals and sells Zopiclone and god knows what else and is a drink driver

You can't realistically expect nurses to move sick patients around - some of whom will be too ill to move by themselves, or might not be easy to move at all if they hooked up to drips etc. And would this family with all-day visitors get the use of the room all day? So no-one else could use it?

That said, it's not unreasonable to limit the number of visitors present at once, and from past experience, loud tech is also a problem, whether it's individual televisions (I haven't seen these lately, thank goodness) or phones.

I don't want to go back to the days of fixed or limited visiting hours though. If I've travelled for several hours to visit someone (as often happens), and have to travel several hours back again, I don't want to be turned away, or told I've only got 15 minutes till visiting hours are over.

But if it's only mandatory to keep it for a week or so and there are cost pressures on storage..

2018 would have meant it was subject to gdpr, which tends to give an impetus to delete

Possibly they are now? I would say the technology is improving all the time I had cctv put in ten years ago and the storage unit was half a terabyte which was a lot at the time. The maintenance guy reckons standard unit now is 4 terabytes and half the price I paid.

He knew alright. I'd bet money it was him.

Why can't CCTV recordings of premises be kept securely and long-term for vulnerable people who are being looked after in any parts of the care system? At least then there would be visual records of the people in the vicinity at the time of any violent incident. I realise that there may be cost implications and issues about the rights of individuals for privacy, but surely public areas could be continuously monitored and retention of film funded? I really dislike the idea of so much long-term monitoring but I'd put up with it in places like hospitals to stop something like this happening again.

Gareth Thompson, representing Mrs Kneale's family, asked Mr Pover why he had not raised the matter with anyone else, saying: "The nurse brought concerns to you. Why didn't you do your job and react to those concerns?"
Mr Pover said he honestly did not know.
He told the inquest that he thought he had underestimated the seriousness of the situation.
"I don't think I computed it as blood," he said.

(Matthew Pover was a senior nurse working in the stroke unit and part of the team who looked after her)

So he was a senior nurse, and didn’t compute that it was blood 🤔

Yes, that is why I suggest making carriers responsible, and making them take full information to retain, and to also send ahead.But my other suggestion was that every passenger before boarding would have a wrist stamp, with indelible ink to ensure s/he was identified by the code on the stamp being linked to the details/photo/ fingerprints lodged with the airline. Their wrists could be checked prior to letting them off the plane. If there was anything wrong, the airline would have the responsibility of returning them to the airport of departure. They and the airline would gain nothing by destroying details.The airlines might quickly find it convenient to demand the passports be put in a locked box during the flight, each labelled with the same code as shown on the wrist stamp.

No difficulty in saying one quiet visitor at a time, per bed, while others wait quietly in the corridor?

After my recent hospital visit, I think who is allowed onto wards should be restricted and ideally each ward have a 'family room' so visitors could visit you but not on the ward.

I was so ill but the woman in the bed next to me had her husband, sisters and loads of teens visit every day. There was at least nine of them every day and they were so so loud it was like having a loud telly with a rubbish soap opera blaring out on the other side of the curtain from 2pm to 8pm every single day shrieking and bellowing and shouting into their phones the whole time.

It was a nightmare. If there was a family room, they could all bugger off there and leave sick people to get well in peace.

Yes horific, I wonder if the poor woman fought against the bastard in her weakened state.

One thing I can't understand is the coroner speaking of seeing so much blood on the sheets, I thought evidence had been cleared, ie blood samples for DNA and also the post mortum was 18 days later.

Would a blood stained bed not trigger concerns and a faster PM.

Some of the timelines seem off to me.

Horrific.