A care home in County Down has been fined £75,000 for a health and safety breach which resulted in a resident choking to death on a piece of orange.
Mervyn Patterson lived at Seeconnell Village Residential Home, Castlewellan, when he died in March 2014. He had learning difficulties and severe autism, and his swallow function was limited.
Coming within just a few months of reporting both our first and second UK lives saved, Dechoker devices are called on twice in 24 hours preventing two fewer choking deaths this year.
Both cases involved food which, as we’ve posted before, is responsible for 85% of choking deaths in England & Wales.
A SENIOR CORONER has written to the both the Care Quality Commission (CQC) and the Department of Health (DoH) raising his concerns about the lack of any formal First Aid training requirements for care staff in the sector.
Dr. Peter Dean, the senior coroner for Suffolk, took the decision to publish his concerns in a ‘Regulation 28’ report which is designed to prevent future deaths. His comments were made after he held an inquest into the death of 55 year old care home resident Ashley Notson, who died after choking on a piece of meat in a unnamed care home.
Last year we established that the Care Quality Commission (CQC) are not able to report on the number of choking incidents or deaths that occur across any of the areas that they are responsible for.
Dechoker UK commissioned the Office for National Statistics (ONS) to look at the number of recorded deaths in England & Wales where ‘choking’ was recorded on the Death Certificate and also the place of their recorded death.
A pensioner with dementia choked to death after care home staff gave her chicken nuggets for dinner despite a diagnosed swallowing problem.
A care company has been handed a six-figure fine after its ‘repeated failure’ to act on recommendations led to a beloved Doncaster grandmother choking to death on a sandwich.
Derbyshire based Your Health Group which encompasses Your Health Limited and ENA HomeCare Services, a Domiciliary Care agency, have become the latest highprofile provider to choose the company’s Airway Clearance Device.
Care teams in all ten care homes across the country which provide services including day care and residences for adults with an array of physical impairments and mental health conditions, are already undergoing a rolling programme of training.
The death a man who choked on food at an Oswestry residential home was “accidental” and not “reasonably preventable”, an inquest jury has found.
