Delivering Dignity draft report

It will only do that if we find ways to work together to take action. We have had numerous reports before which have made some similar rceommendations. the quetsion is therefroe why have things not moved forward and what can we do as champions to make that happen. I really hope that everyone who is able is commenting on the report and taking action to ensure that we are not in this posiiton in a years time.

Not sure the report actually will, but the actions that come out of it, if we all contirbute will have a significnat impact,

Things change so slowly and people are so two faced in the care sector. These institutions are so closed that bad practice easily becomes the norm. Our new manager who came in to make all these wonderful improvements following a bad inspection is already saying that all our residents have to be in bed by the time the late shift finishes! 7.30! Can you imagine!
In general many care staff see the needs of the institution as all important and seem to just not have the ability to put themselves in the position of a resident of a care home no matter how many NVQs and courses they go on.

Hi All,
One answer to Catharine's concerning comment is to look what My Home Life UK has been doing in many care homes around England.
This is about sessions on learning through action learning sets. Contact them via email in the update I have attached.

All the details are on the website. www.myhomelifemovement.org
I attach the latest 2011 update for everyone.

In Wales as well as 30 homes in our 4 Phases of work over the past 4 years we have developed 228 regional networks and so over 228 care homes in Wales engage with us.

Another parallel answer is to consider that a manager who demands that all residents are in bed by 7.30pm is abusive as they have removed the residents opportunities for choice and control of their lives. Report this to your local inspector now.

Regards,

Lorraine Morgan
Chair of My Home Life Cymru

I totally agree with the first comment - it's a very good report, with very clear and consise recommendations ................the proof of the pudding will be if any of the recommendations are actually taken forward and upheld - having recently worked as a social work practitioner in an acute hospital setting I can honestly ay that dignity is the very last thing on any nurses and consultants mind when applying their 'trade'. When you witness people being de-personalised to the extent of being referred to and discussed about by way of their bed number (A4, C5 etc which doesnt even recognise their sex!) then you know that dignity, compassion and respect is going to be shoved away at the back of the bedside locker along with the soiled linens.

A huge sizemic shift is required in the very culture of care in hospitals Im afraid - perhaps nurses should spend their first year of learing being taught how to engage with other people on an equal level before they are let loose on the medical side.

nicola reynolds

I try to avoid hospitals, but I agree with the 'point you make', except for the bed number thing.

Obviously clinicians should never address a patient by using a bed number, but were you talking about the handover discussions between two clinical teams ? Because patients are allocated particular beds, and a given bed and its number will be 'firmly fixed' in the minds of the people familiar with the ward. And the 'incoming' team, need to have in mind possible clinical complications/events they need to keep an eye out for - so 'bed 3 is such-and such (a clinical situation)' is arguably the fastest way to make the new team, aware of what they need to understand, isn't it ?

That isn't treating people as if they were bed numbers, it is just an obvious approach to avoid unfamiliar people being unsure who is being talked about if instead the conversation went 'Mrs Smith is ........'.

As for everyone else's comments, it is changing the prevailing attitudes where the problem sits - the reports, which seem to be on a sort of endless loop, do all tend to say very similar things about what has gone wrong when problems are highlighted.