Includes failures of controls specifically dedicated to plaster-cast care and management, including staff competence and refresher training, patient assessment in the Plaster Room, protocols, monitoring, documentation, escalation and related follow-up where these affect the safety of patients with plaster casts.
What is not included
Excludes generic staff training or competence deficiencies not specifically tied to plaster-cast care and management.
Excludes general patient assessment, treatment or documentation failures that do not concern patients with plaster casts or the Plaster Room process.
Excludes failures in orthopaedic care unrelated to plaster-cast assessment, management or associated safety controls.
Excludes equipment or staffing deficiencies unless they directly impair the plaster-cast care and management process.
Trends
Reports over time
Reports mentioning this concern, over time
Reports about this concern issued each year.
* 2026 is projected from reports observed to 7 Sep 2026.
Most frequent recipients
Most frequent recipients
Reports about this concern sent to each recipient.
East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust1
NHS England1
St Giles1
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust1
NHS trust2
Domiciliary care provider1
Executive non-departmental public body1
Reports and published responses 2 reports
See individual reports that have raised this concern, and the actions taken in response
Birmingham and Solihull
Concerns raised5
Failure to provide the nursing home with information about monitoring a high risk plaster cast
Lack of a care plan for management and monitoring of the plaster cast
Lack of further staff training on plaster casts
Failure to adequately check the plaster cast for signs of infection
Failure to document pus on the plaster cast
This report raised 7 other concerns. They are not shown here because they do not form part of this recurring concern.
Linked responses
Avery Healthcare Group
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
Stated actions An action is something a respondent says it has done, is doing, or plans to do in response to the concern raised.4
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
Include plaster-cast management literature in discharge document checklists sent to care homes.
Avery Healthcare Group
Implement a care-of-plaster-cast policy and procedure at Avery Healthcare Group.
Avery Healthcare Group
Implement a plaster-cast care plan at Avery Healthcare Group.
Avery Healthcare Group
Provide staff supervision and training on safe management of residents with plaster casts.
Bedfordshire and Luton
Concerns raised1
Lack of a protocol for assessing patients attending the Plaster Room
This report raised 1 other concern. They are not shown here because they do not form part of this recurring concern.
Linked response
East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust
Stated actions An action is something a respondent says it has done, is doing, or plans to do in response to the concern raised.1
East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust
Issue interim guidance requiring plaster-room technicians and fracture-clinic staff to obtain medical review in specified circumstances.
Actions and positions describe what organisations say in published responses. Implementation is not independently verified.
Actions and positions describe what organisations say in published responses. Implementation is not independently verified.