Probe staff deaf to dying man's cries
By Siobhain Ryan
February 19, 2008
OFFICIALS did not hear the cries of a dying man during a federal investigation into a fatal disease outbreak at a Melbourne nursing home last year because they never left the facility's office, preferring to check paperwork rather than patients.
Minister for Ageing Justine Elliot yesterday accused the former government of sitting on a report by the Aged Care Commissioner into the Broughton Hall nursing home outbreak for nine months.
A summary of the report by Aged Care Commissioner Rhonda Parker, filed in May last year and tabled in parliament yesterday, revealed that departmental staff sent to investigate a gastroenteritis outbreak, which eventually killed five people, checked only the nursing home's paperwork and not its residents.
Ms Elliot said guidelines for nurses investigating clinical care in nursing homes were being revised with the help of state, territory and local health authorities. They would provide more specific pointers on how to identify potential problems, she said.
(abridged) SOURCE: theAustralian
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Inexcusable! Must we spell out every little detail; like talking to the people affected? One would expect that the requirements in such an investigation should have been taught at the training school. Perhaps, I am just too annoyed by this report. Am I the only one with this view?
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