An update to this post.

The CQC knew.

The ‘incident’ referred to here involves a man diagnosed with autism and epilepsy who drowned unsupervised in the bath in April 2016. He drowned. Alone, unsupervised in a bath.

The CQC re-inspected the ‘home’, found various failings and referred to Elric Eiffert’s death as an ‘incident’. They found inadequate, or no, risk assessments around epilepsy:

They took no formal action despite identifying risks to life that ended in death.

Instead asking the provider to:

send us a report that says what action they are going to take.

Send us a report…

The CQC knew.

At the same time they knew LB drowned in a hospital bath three years before. A death that should have been, by then, high profile enough to make any provider or NHS Trust pay close attention to bathing risks for [‘”vulnerable”‘] people diagnosed with epilepsy.

The CQC knew.

At the same time they were conducting an investigation into the way in which NHS Trusts respond to unexpected deaths. The irony. The wanton, careless, unjoining of dots that demand to be joined. That scream to be joined. How much money is wasted on this shite? While people continue to lead impoverished lives or worse?

The CQC knew.

Today #7daysofaction launched a campaign focusing on the profit made from the incarceration of learning disabled people in assessment and treatment units.

Dosh or death. Death and dosh.

The CQC knew someone had drowned in the bath when they inspected that place on April 28 2016.