About this page. This page summarises a Domestic Homicide Review published in the Home Office DHR Library. The full report is available at the source link below. Victim and perpetrator names are not included in extracted summaries on this page.
Source · Domestic Homicide Review
Gloucestershire review
CSP: Gloucestershire
Published: August 2023
Year of death: 2014
Extracted: 5 recs
Statutory domestic homicide review under section 9 of the Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004. Source: Home Office DHR Library.
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Source: Home Office DHR Library
Summary
The review identified concerns regarding care home staff procedures for responding to assistance bells when visitors are present. It also highlighted the challenges in early diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia and the need for increased public awareness and research into the condition.
Extracted recommendations
| # | Recommendation | Addressed to |
|---|---|---|
| 17.1.1 | Care and nursing home providers should introduce a procedural policy that when a resident presses their assistance bell the responding member of staff should check their needs with them personally, rather than accepting the word of a visitor. Management teams should ensure that all staff are aware of this policy and that it is included in all staff induction and refresher training. | Care and nursing home providers |
| 17.1.2 | That the Department of Health be notified about the circumstances of this case so that: • Consideration can be given to the need for further research to find the causes and effective treatments for schizophrenia; had a test been available to make the diagnosis at an earlier presentation, some intervention might have been possible. • That there be a public awareness campaign to de-stigmatise mental health and to provide the general public with information which may enable them to identify the early signs of schizophrenia. | Department of Health |
| 17.2.1 | Care and nursing home providers should introduce a procedural policy that when a resident presses their assistance bell the responding member of staff should check their needs with them personally, rather than accepting the word of a visitor. Management teams should ensure that all staff are aware of this policy and that it is included in all staff induction and refresher training. | Care and nursing home providers |
| 17.3.1 | The group will introduce a policy that when a resident presses their assistance bell the responding member of staff will check with them personally other than accepting the word of a visitor. This will be included in all staff training. | Health Care Company |
| 17.3.2 | The home has changed their protocols so that all visitors have to ring the bell and sign the visitor’s book, which now includes their relationship with the resident they are visiting. This will be kept under review. | Health Care Company |
| Recommendations extracted from the published report. Source: Home Office DHR Library. View full report ↗ | ||