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Thank
you for visiting Falls at Forth
Valley Royal Hospital.
The
purpose of this website is to
collect as much of the
information as can be achieved
that is in the public domain
about falls - and, specifically,
falls after failures of falls
prevention care, at Forth Valley
Royal Hospital.
Reports
by the Scottish Public Services
Ombudsman reveal that the
Ombudsman has upheld complaints
and made recommendations for
improvement - after recorded
failures of falls prevention care
and post falls care - in far more
cases by population for NHS Forth
Valley than in most other
Scottish health
boards.
- Why
does this keep
happening?
- Why
does the Ombudsman keep making
recommendations that are
followed by further falls,
injuries and sometimes
deaths?
This
website is not a campaign. But it
is being posted in the hope that
the information collected can be
of value to elected MPs, MSPs,
health officials, industry
regulators and, perhaps, the
hospital itself.
These
people and organisations all need
to establish why Forth Valley
Royal Hospital has such a record
of injury and fatalities after
falls that follow documented
failures of falls prevention care
and post falls care.
If
you would like to get in touch
with this website please go to
the contact
page.
My
father died of brain injuries
after a fall at Forth Valley
Royal Hospital that followed a
host of nursing failures.
- That
was ten years ago, in
2012.
- We
were told nurses were fully
trained.
- We
were told failings in care
were individual mistakes -
that they weren't systemic.
- We
were told improvements had
been made.
So
why have so many other patients
fallen, been injured and in some
cases gone on to die after
repeated failures of falls care
in NHS Forth
Valley?
How
does that happen?
If
you are a relative of someone who
has suffered after failures of
falls prevention care at Forth
Valley Royal Hospital you are not
alone. You are far from alone.
Across
Forth Valley too many families
have suffered from the same
deficiencies.
Failures
have kept
on
happening.
Most
other health boards in Scotland
do not have such a record of
failure.
Whatever
"training" NHS Forth Valley says
it gives nurses has not helped
quell an appalling record of
documented falls followed by
injuries and deaths after
failures of falls prevention
nursing care.
To
read of other victims and
families suffering the same
shocking level of repeated
failures is abhorrent.
This
website is an attempt to put
enough information together so
that people in appropriate
positions can rectify this
situation.
This
website is not an attack on
NHS Forth Valley, Forth Valley
Royal Hospital, nurses or
anyone else associated with
the hospital.
The
hospital is a public resource
that is there to carry out
good work for individuals and
the community and there are
many honourable and
professional people who work
there every day.
But
when failures that put
patients at risk of harm occur
- time and time again - they
should be recorded,
investigated and
remedied.
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