Kerria Court

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First report 3 Aug 2016•Latest report 3 Aug 2016

Reports, concerns and published responses

Reports over time

Reports naming this recipient by issue year.

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Reports
1

Naming this recipient

Published responses
0%

Found for named reports

Concerns addressed
0

Across all linked responses

Stated actions
0

Described in responses

Concerns and recipient responses

Statements from Kerria Court linked to the concerns in each report. Select any concern, action or position to view the source wording.

  1. Birmingham and Solihull

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    Winston Harris · Prevention of Future Deaths report

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    Report summary

    Winston Harris, a resident with dementia, left hospital on 17 March 2016 after previously attempting to leave the ward. He was found at a bus stop the following day, severely hypothermic with an acute kidney injury, and died on 22 March 2016; the inquest concluded that he died from dilated cardiomyopathy contributed to by hypothermia and acute kidney injury. Concerns included inadequate documentation of his absconding risk and pending deprivation of liberty application, failure to consider an emergency deprivation of liberty safeguard, and delays in processing the application.

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    How this individual concern was interpreted

    PFD Monitor created a concise, searchable interpretation from the report wording shown below. The report was sent to Kerria Court; that does not assign responsibility.

    PFD Monitor interpretation

    Failure to communicate absconding risk in written hospital transfer documentation

    Wider context from the report

    “(2)When Mr Harris was transferred to hospital, without an escort, there was no written documentation provided to confirm that a DOLS had been applied for and that he was an absconding risk. ”
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    How this individual concern was interpreted

    PFD Monitor created a concise, searchable interpretation from the report wording shown below. The report was sent to Kerria Court; that does not assign responsibility.

    PFD Monitor interpretation

    Failure to consider emergency DOLS for a person presenting a relevant deprivation-of-liberty risk

    Wider context from the report

    “(3) At no time did staff consider if Mr Harris should be subject to an emergency DOLS despite him having dementia and having tried to leave the ward on 16/03/2016. He had previously been assessed as requiring and DOLS. ”
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    How this individual concern was interpreted

    PFD Monitor created a concise, searchable interpretation from the report wording shown below. The report was sent to Kerria Court; that does not assign responsibility.

    PFD Monitor interpretation

    Delays in processing DOLS applications

    Wider context from the report

    “(4) The application for DOLS order was not processed before Mr Harris’s death. I heard evidence that it often takes many months to process a DOLS application. Given these are extremely vulnerable people applications should be processed more quickly. ”
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    How this individual concern was interpreted

    PFD Monitor created a concise, searchable interpretation from the report wording shown below. The report was sent to Kerria Court; that does not assign responsibility.

    PFD Monitor interpretation

    Failure to include absconding risk and previous absconding behaviour in the care plan

    Wider context from the report

    “(1) The care plan for Mr Harris did not deal with his risk of absconding. As a result when he was transferred to City Hospital with his care plan there were no details of his previous absconding behaviour. ”
    Open source report

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    How this individual concern was interpreted

    PFD Monitor created a concise, searchable interpretation from the report wording shown below. The report was sent to Kerria Court; that does not assign responsibility.

    PFD Monitor interpretation

    Failure to provide written confirmation of DOLS applications during hospital transfer

    Wider context from the report

    “(2)When Mr Harris was transferred to hospital, without an escort, there was no written documentation provided to confirm that a DOLS had been applied for and that he was an absconding risk. ”
    Open source report
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