BBC’s Panorama – Eye Opener On Mental Health Care In UK
The sting operation carried out by BBC’s Panorama in the Winterbourne View care home revealed numerous instances of assault and abuse of patients by support staff. This has raised disturbing questions on the efficacy of outsourcing such activities to private organizations.
Health car involves something more than doctors performing a GP doctor job. Mental health is an important aspect of health care and this includes providing care for individuals with special needs. No reasonable person will expect the state to provide 5 star level comforts and facilities. However, the government has to ensure that patients are not subjected to physical and mental harassment by support staff with sadistic and perverted tendencies.
The role of the Care Quality Commission which acts a the regulator of institutions like the Winterbourne View care home is particularly suspect. It now appears that more than one individual sought to bring the mistreatment of the patients to the knowledge of the management and the regulator. The management conveniently brushed the issue under the carpet while the regulator promised to revert back seeking more information and never did so.
The world reacted in outrage when scenes of mistreatment of prisoners in the Abu Ghraib prison became public. The fact that such scenes have occurred in a UK health facility raises very disturbing questions about the condition of patients in the country. Old age care is not just a financial but a social problem as well. A nation that does not take care of its elderly sets a very bad precedent for its younger generation.
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