Jamesina MacKenzie
Recommendations
It is management’s responsibility to remind staff of their primary duty to the residents and to monitor staff’s fulfilment of that duty.
What can be said however, and on this I do agree with the Procurator Fiscal, is that there is a role in the Care Inspectorate in considering the level of medical and nursing expertise available to the care provider and further for that body to audit the quality of the necessary record-keeping.
[87] The knowledge that this combination of circumstances was allowed to occur will, I hope, enable care homes and general medical practices, to identify similar factors at an earlier stage and allow measures to be taken to prevent the recurrence of such a situation being allowed to develop.
Section 28 responses
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Determination details
- Reference
- B45/11
- Published
- 3 July 2012
- Sheriff
- Sheriff Alasdair Lorne Macfadyen
- Sheriffdom
- Grampian, Highland and Islands