The Client’s Insurance Manager requested an independent review of the risk assessment system in relation to choking risk following a fatality in a care home reported to the Health and Safety Executive.
With no next of kin, it was considered unlikely that this would result in any civil action however the report content would not be a privileged document and therefore disclosable in any future cases.
The HSE have subsequently investigated this matter and served an improvement notice on an unrelated matter but have advised that any further non-conformances will result in going straight to prosecution.
A document review and site visits to three care homes, a care home repurposed as a reablement centre, a short stay and respite unit for SEND and a SEND school. The visits took place between February and March 2024. The client now has the report and we have offered to speak to it at an Executive Team meeting if they wish, to explore and expand on details and issues raised from the visits.
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