Basildon Hospital

Basildon hospital confessed that they failed to keep their patients and visitors safe after two people died  after contracting Legionnaire’s disease.

Basildon Hospital have now been ordered to pay fines and costs of £350,000 for failing to make sure that the safety of its patients was of the most importance.

The hospital acknowledged fault and; that it didn’t keep its patients, and visitors safe between 2006 and 2007 after patients there contracted Legionnaire’s disease and died and, six more were additionally contaminated by the chronic Legionella.

Chiefs furthermore pleaded that they were culpable to a comparable matter after a patient, who was on the hospital’s elderly ward, was injured after descending five metres from an open window.

The ruling, which was held at Chelmsford crown court, where the judge said: “These are failures of very different kinds but each is in its own way serious.”

He ordered that Basildon Hospital, which is one of the 14 identified in a report into the abnormally inflated death ratio by the NHS medical director, Sir Bruce Keogh, to pay a fine of £100,000 for the Legionnaire’s offence and £75,000 for the fall.

The trust must additionally pay the prosecution’s legal costs of £175,000.

The judge said: “The very phrase Legionnaire’s disease is enough to strike a chord of concern for any of us staying in hospital anywhere in this country, or who have elderly relatives staying in hospital.”

Coping with and, restraining this bacteria is enormous, expensive and involved and, is a problem to hospitals all over.

The degree of Basildon Hospital’s deficiency requires to be seen against the complexity of the problems they’re fronted with and, the amount of people who stroll through their doorway.

This fiasco wasn’t of incomprehension, absence of concern or rash ignorance for the welfare of the patients and visitors, it’s because they’re not being given the supplies and facilities that are required to keep a hospital protected and undamaged.

Nurses and doctors are overtaxed and, stressed out and, right now they’re coming under attack, but the easy vindication is that there are too many leaders and not enough Indians and, it has been hidden for far too long.

When shower heads and thermostatic valves are not being cleansed properly because the financial plan to chemically kill the bacteria was cut and, efforts to address the disease was by super heating hot pipes, which failed by warming cold pipes, then caused bacteria to increase rapidly, then we know that something is severely inappropriate with the structure of the hospital and, how it’s being run.

Playing down the facts is one thing, but when someone says, “That for a lengthy period of time the hospital fell short of its responsibilities and failed its patients”.  That’s not a good enough excuse, particularly when there are sick people already in hospital, expecting to get better.

It’s one place that they come to when they’re ill, in the hopefulness that something can be done for them and; that while they’re in there, they’re in the finest credentialed hands and, that they’ll be regarded well and, without prejudice and, that while they’re in there, they will not contract anything more than they went in with.

It’s no good saying sorry for an act that has already been done, it’s like closing the stable door after the horse has bolted.  What we need is that it doesn’t happen in the first place and, we know that people are not without fault and, we know that people make errors, but when patients in a hospital are not being behaved towards with due regard and, employees are considering elderly patients an encumbrance, this merely is a sign that  we need to divulge what is really going on inside the hospital establishment.

Healthcare providers, like all organisations, have a legalised responsibility to control risks in their hospitals.  The hospitals need to make sure that their patients are cared for in a secure setting where they can’t come to any harm or contract anymore afflictions than they have already.

Basildon Hospital need to put money into and, more importantly improve and govern their hospital faultlessly and, to as well keep down the possibilities of any patients contracting anything they shouldn’t have, apart from what they came in with.

Sentiment is misused with words, those words require to all be distilled into endeavours, which causes results and, if we do more with our actions, they may guide to good consequences once again, looking after patients how they were intended to be looked after in the first place.

When looking after patients, there should never be any excuses because these are human beings that are under our supervision and, anyone in the medical vocation should be there to make sacrifices not for themselves, but purely for the sick and infirm.

If you’re going to work in the medical profession and you’re there in vain or to be selfish, lazy or narrow minded, then you shouldn’t be there, for it’s not just a job, but it’s a vocation and, the very first prerequisite in a hospital is that it shouldn’t do the sick any harm!