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Welcome
to Falls at Forth Valley Royal
Hospital.
This
is an independent website - not
connected in any way to NHS Forth
Valley.
The
purpose of the website is to
collate and publish links to
public domain reports of failures
of falls related care at Forth
Valley Royal Hospital.
Why?
Because since it was officially
opened in 2011 the hospital has
seen numerous patients fall after
failures of falls prevention
care.
Some
patients have gone on to sustain
serious injuries.
Some
have died.
If
you read further, you will find
details of:
- Repeated
failures of nursing
care
- Injuries
after protocols
breached
- Deaths
following falls prevention
shortcomings
- Numerous
reports by public bodies that
expose failures
These
failures have been recurring.
That's despite report after
report by expert nurses, the
Scottish Public Services
Ombudsman and in the press that
have clearly identified concerns
and areas the hospital needs to
improve.
Family
after family has been told by NHS
Forth Valley that it has adequate
training and support for nurses.
Yet serious breaches of care have
kept on happening, year after
year.
Many
of these breaches have been
documented - notably by the
Scottish Public Services
Ombudsman.
The
hospital has been told by the
Ombudsman to make improvements
and supply proof that it has made
those improvements: on several
occasions.
Despite
all that, the level of failures
of falls prevention care has
continued to see critical reports
written by the Ombudsman after
complaints from families of those
who were injured or who died
after falls.
NHS Forth
Valley has one of the highest
levels of failures of falls
prevention care of any health
board in the whole of Scotland,
when measured by the number of
complaints upheld and
recommendations for improvements
made by the Ombudsman.
Read
details of Ombudsman reports
here
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