Jill BRICE · Prevention of Future Deaths report

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Issued 20 Oct 2023•West Sussex, Brighton and Hove

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Concerns
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Raised in this report

Recipients
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Named on the report

Responses found
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Of 2 recipients

Stated actions
1

Described in responses

Recipients and published responses

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Concerns and recipient responses

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Concerns raised1

  1. Failure to ensure care residents keep their pendant close to them at all times

Stated actions An action is something a recipient says it has done, is doing, or plans to do in response to a concern raised.1

  1. Care Quality Commission

    Improve processing procedures to prevent recurrence of Regulation 28 response delays.

Respondent positions A position is what a recipient says about a concern when it does not describe a specific action.2

  1. Care Quality Commission

    The accommodation provider is not regulated by the respondent, so it cannot provide reassurance about reminding residents to keep pendants nearby.

    Outside remitThe respondent said that this matter was outside its role or authority.
  2. Care Quality Commission

    Provisionally, the location falls outside registration requirements and therefore outside the scope of regulation.

    Outside remitThe respondent said that this matter was outside its role or authority.

Source evidence

How this individual concern was interpreted

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PFD Monitor interpretation

Failure to ensure care residents keep their pendant close to them at all times

Wider context from the report

“The Fire Safety Report recommended that care residents be reminded to have their pendant close to them at all times. I would like reassurance that this be actioned. ”

Is this part of a recurring concern?

No recurring-concern membership is currently published.

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How this respondent action was interpreted

PFD Monitor created a concise, searchable interpretation from the published response wording shown below.

PFD Monitor interpretation

Improve processing procedures to prevent recurrence of Regulation 28 response delays.

Verbatim wording from the response

“Due to a processing error, your Regulation 28 report was not considered for review until 2 January 2024. We take Regulation 28 reports very seriously and value the information contained within them for the purposes of helping inform proper discharge of our regulatory functions. We therefore very much regret the delay that this error has caused. We will seek to address that error at pace with process improvements to ensure that there is no repetition of the issue.”

Source location

Response from Care Quality Commission
Page 1 · response
Published 1 November 2023

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How this respondent position was interpreted

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PFD Monitor interpretation

The accommodation provider is not regulated by the respondent, so it cannot provide reassurance about reminding residents to keep pendants nearby.

Verbatim wording from the response

“Unfortunately, we are unable to provide reassurance required regarding this concern or to comment upon it. The accommodation where Jill Brice resided was sheltered accommodation managed by the Teachers Housing Association, a not-for-profit charitable organisation. This organisation is not registered with us and therefore not regulated by us. The Teachers Association would not be required to register with us unless it was providing a regulated activity, as defined in section 8 of the Health and Social Care Act 2008 and Part 1 paragraph 2 of the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulation 2014.”

Source location

Response from Care Quality Comission
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Published 1 November 2023

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How this respondent position was interpreted

PFD Monitor created a concise, searchable interpretation from the published response wording shown below.

PFD Monitor interpretation

Provisionally, the location falls outside registration requirements and therefore outside the scope of regulation.

Verbatim wording from the response

“We have undertaken a rapid review of the concerns raised in your Regulation 28 report and established that the location where Mrs Brice was residing at the time of her death, namely the Dene, the Green, Rottingdean, Brighton, was not registered with us.”

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Response from Care Quality Commission
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Published 1 November 2023

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