Western Health and Social Care Trust

Response to this request is long overdue. By law, under all circumstances, Western Health and Social Care Trust (Northern Ireland) should have responded by now (details). You can complain by requesting an internal review.

Anahita Behrooz

Dear Western Health and Social Care Trust (Northern Ireland),

Would you please provide:

1) Number of Safeguarding concerns received from or in connection with the above named home from all sources (the home itself, family, hospital, etc)

2) Number of Investigations conducted in response to safeguarding alerts, complaints, allegations of abuse, etc.

3) Outcome of the investigations conducted. (e.g. substantiated, not substantiated, partially substantiated, etc.)

4) Number of Deaths (for any reason, natural or otherwise) of any person who used the care service

5) Number of Incidents reported to or investigated by the police, again not necessarily related to safeguarding concerns.

6) Number of Pressure Ulcers of any grade reported by the provider or external medical staff or family, etc.

7) Number of complaints received by anyone and by any route (phone, email, in person, letter, etc) in connection with this home.

Please provide these figures in the following way:

Breakdown of the above for years 2014, 2015 for full year; and for 2016 between January and June. If any of the numbers are fewer than 5 for certain years, and you would therefore be unable to disclose them, please feel free to add the numbers for different years together and provide the total number.

Thank you in advance for your assistance.

Yours faithfully,

Anahita Behrooz

FOI Request, Western Health and Social Care Trust (Northern Ireland)

This e-mail is covered by the disclaimer found at the end of the message.

Dear Anahita

We acknowledge receipt of your Freedom of Information request below which was received by the Western HSC Trust on 11th July 2016.  I note that you have not identified the name of the care home. When you provide this, I will make some enquiries and contact you again soon with a Trust response.

Regards

Freedom of Information Office
Western Health & Social Care Trust
Email: [Western Health and Social Care Trust (Northern Ireland) request email]

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