{"id":2140,"date":"2023-06-21T15:07:17","date_gmt":"2023-06-21T14:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.socialdemocrats.ie\/report-highlights-catastrophic-failure-by-hse-to-protect-nursing-home-residents\/"},"modified":"2023-09-15T10:41:27","modified_gmt":"2023-09-15T09:41:27","slug":"report-highlights-catastrophic-failure-by-hse-to-protect-nursing-home-residents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.socialdemocrats.ie\/ga\/report-highlights-catastrophic-failure-by-hse-to-protect-nursing-home-residents\/","title":{"rendered":"Report highlights catastrophic failure by HSE to protect nursing home residents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Government must now fast-track safeguarding legislation for vulnerable adults\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The catastrophic failure to investigate sexual assault complaints in a HSE nursing home must mark a turning point in how the State safeguards vulnerable adults, according to Social Democrats health spokesperson R\u00f3is\u00edn Shortall.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe report by the National Independent Review Panel (NIRP), which was set up to examine governance issues following the rape of a resident three years ago, is truly shocking. Among its most damning findings is that other female residents at the facility had made similar complaints against the healthcare assistant convicted in that case. However, these allegations were not believed, reported or followed up on.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAccording to the NIRP, it appears that these residents\u2019 claims of abuse were attributed to clinical causes such as delusions, hallucinations, delirium, confusion or urinary tract infections.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe HSE must fully pursue the complaints of the other nine residents and work closely to identify issues and shortcomings in nursing home procedures and systems as a matter of urgency.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere needs to be an immediate review of all systems for reporting and receiving incidents of resident abuse, with binding protocols put in place.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn tandem with this, the Government must expedite its long-promised safeguarding legislation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAny review of safeguarding governance structures must ensure there is national operational leadership for social work via the role of Chief Social Worker, as called for by the Irish Association of Social Workers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis report will make for distressing reading for relatives of the victims and should be a watershed moment in how we safeguard vulnerable adults in private and public healthcare settings.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>June 21, 2023<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government must now fast-track safeguarding legislation for vulnerable adults\u00a0 The catastrophic failure to investigate sexual assault complaints in a HSE nursing home must mark a turning point in how the State safeguards vulnerable adults, according to Social Democrats health spokesperson R\u00f3is\u00edn Shortall. \u201cThe report by the National Independent Review Panel (NIRP), which was set up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2063,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,7,264],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-press-release","category-roisin-shortall"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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