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Only last November we learned that 120,000 people had died in the social care sector, because of Tory austerity cuts.
Now we learn that more people are dying because of failings in mental health care, after hundreds of deaths were revealed due to lapses caused by privatisation.
And Jeremy Hunt has been unable to account – adequately – for an extra 10,000+ deaths in the first seven weeks of the year.
We don’t have a government – we have a cartel of serial killers.
A mental health patient died from a drug overdose after being discharged by NHS staff due to missing one appointment.
David West’s death is one of several “harrowing” cases highlighted in a new report that documents “serious failings” in England’s mental health services.
He was discharged by Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust’s community health team after missing a single appointment. But he was not told of the decision, given a discharge plan, or offered access to a crisis service.
He died shortly after from a drugs overdose.
Campaigners said the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman (PHSO) report showed “the desperate need for reform” of “overstretched services”.
The PHSO, Rob Behrens, said … “These cases are not isolated examples. They are symptomatic of persistent problems we see time and again in our complaints casework and, moreover, they represent failings throughout the care pathway.”
Posted by jeffrey davies on 23 March 2018
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The Department for Work and Pensions just can’t stop causing offence, it seems.
Not only did it ignore a notification that a benefit claimant had died, the Department waited an entire seven months before sending an assessor out for a face-to-face interview.
The encounter clearly distressed the daughter of the deceased. Her reaction – simply handing the man her mother’s ashes – was remarkably restrained.
But this should not be allowed to go on.
The Department for Work and Pensions should have been reined in, years ago – but the Conservatives prefer to allow it to create an atmosphere of fear and anxiety, possibly to keep claimants down.
It isn’t good enough.
Who was responsible for this outrage?
Were they disciplined for causing such distress without any cause?
It seems doubtful.
It is long past time to demand payback for the indignities foisted on the populace by an uncaring bureaucracy. Perhaps this is a good place to start.
A furious daughter handed a benefits doctor proof her mum was not fit to work — her ashes.
Hatti Broxton, 28, told the Department for Work and Pensions last August her dinner lady mum Louise had died of lung cancer aged 47.
After initially saying the information had been placed on file they sent the doctor to assess if Louise was “fit to work”.
Fuming prison worker Hatti, of Wolverhampton, said last night :”His first words were ‘Hi, are you Louise?.
“I was stunned and said I wasn’t but invited him in and said:’Hang on a minute I’ll go and get her’.
“I walked over to the mantle piece in the lounge where we keep mum’s remains in an an urn decorated with a rose.
“I handed it to him and said ‘This is the Louise Broxton you’ve come to see. She died in August like I told your office at the time.'”
Posted by jeffrey davies on 20 March 2018
