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Susceptible grownup sufferers have been despatched by the NHS to a personal hospital after it closed its youngsters’s service simply weeks in the past following abuse allegations, The Impartial can reveal.
Joyce Parker Hospital in Coventry, run by non-public hospital large Cygnet Well being Care, was accused by Care High quality Fee of failing to guard youngster sufferers from bodily abuse by employees, following an inspection this summer season.
A letter leaked to The Impartial revealed inspectors noticed CCTV proof of employees “dragging” youngsters round whereas restrained.
Cygnet Well being Care, on which the NHS spends tons of of hundreds of thousands of kilos for psychological well being beds, closed its youngsters’s service in September following the allegations.
Weeks later the service reopened as a service for male adults and The Impartial can reveal native NHS commissioners have already positioned sufferers within the hospital, regardless of the earlier abuse allegations.
Deborah Coles, chief govt for charity INQUEST, which has represented households of sufferers who’ve died in care, stated: “This recycling of companies, regardless of damning criticisms, is a loophole that should shut.”
That is a minimum of the second time Joyce Parker Hospital has reopened as a brand new service after the earlier service was criticised by regulators. In 2020 it reopened as a hospital for kids with psychological well being wants, after closing its service for ladies with consuming problems, following a essential report by CQC inspectors in 2019.
In August The Impartial revealed a CQC warning to Cygnet, despatched on 8 August, that it was involved that employees have been bodily abusing sufferers.
The letter referenced CCTV footage, seen by the CQC inspectors, that included one incident the place a affected person was restrained by employees and dragged backwards alongside the ground.
On this footage, seven employees adopted two sufferers right into a bed room and as much as seven employees members have been seen dragging one of many sufferers out and placing them on the ground within the hall.
Current NHS information on out-of-area placements, which data the variety of psychological well being sufferers despatched removed from dwelling to hospitals, reveals Cygnet Well being Care value the NHS £4.3m between April 2023 and April 2024, for 150 sufferers.
4 Cygnet Well being Care hospitals – Bury, Sherwood Lodge, Wyke and Blackheath – have been the most costly over the identical interval for out-of-area placements when in comparison with all different NHS or non-public hospital items.
Final yr The Impartial revealed how one other non-public supplier, Huntercombe Hospital Group, had made plans to reopen its scandal-hit youngsters’s hospital for adults in Maidenhead. Nevertheless, the supplier then closed the hospital completely.
Well being secretary Wes Streeting beforehand informed The Impartial it was proper that Joyce Parker Hospital had closed its youngsters’s service.
The DHSC declined to touch upon the admission of grownup sufferers.
Cygnet Well being Care was approached for remark.
