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Health care and adult safeguarding
— an audit informing the relationship of the UK vetting and barring scheme with the NHS | | Author(s) | Lynne Phair, Jill Manthorpe |
| Journal title | Journal of Adult Protection, vol 13, no 5, 2011 |
| Pages | pp 251-258 |
| Source | www.emeraldinsight.com |
| Keywords | Elder abuse ; Personnel ; National Health Service ; Standards of provision ; Evaluation. |
| Annotation | The authors report on an audit undertaken in 2010 to support implementation of the Independent Safeguarding Authority (ISA) processes by National Health Service (NHS) Trusts. The ISA was set up under the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 (SVGA). Concern has been expressed that some NHS employers are not familiar with their new obligations to consider making referrals to the ISA. The audit was designed to provide an estimate of possible NHS referrals to the enhanced vetting and barring scheme run by the ISA in England and Wales. It also explored two self-selected NHS Trusts' potential decision-making and referrals to the ISA following disciplinary action or adverse events. The two participating Trusts engaged in a detailed review of incidents and their relationship to harm as defined by the 2006 Act. The simple number of how many incidents have been reported to the ISA by an NHS Trust will not equate to the number of cases of individual patients being harmed or the number of events that have placed them at risk of harm. There are considerable differences in how reporting an incident is viewed, managed and dealt with among NHS Trusts. Following this audit, the best estimate of the number of potential NHS referrals from England, Wales and Northern Ireland to the ISA over one year is about 712. While the information from this small audit has not been examined in detail, the results suggest a need for further work on what is most helpful in making the differential decisions about the type of harm that has occurred from an incident. NHS Trusts may need to assure themselves that their duties under the SVGA are fully understood and implemented. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-121026012 A |
| Classmark | QNT: QM: L4: 583: 4C |
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