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The new quiet and calming space is already a success with dementia patients, offering them somewhere to spend quality time with family and staff, in a much more therapeutic space.
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Following the warning notice from the CQC and after being placed in financial special measures, NHS Trust bosses have been invited to speak to the Isle of Wight Council’s policy and scrutiny committee for adult social care and health.
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40 nurses have been hired from the Philippines to help reduce the amount Isle of Wight NHS Trust's agency costs.
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£23m in the red, an FOI request reveals the Isle of Wight NHS trust spent more than £1.1m on management consultants whilst services were cut.
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It's possible some dementia patients could be sent to mainland hospitals during the refurb of Shackleton Ward at St Mary's as it closes for nine weeks.
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The Director of mental health and learning disabilities said the new mental health wellbeing service will take the pressure of community services so they can deal with people in crisis.
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Head of the Isle of Wight Youth Trust says many young people feel like they don’t belong, that the community doesn’t think much of them.
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The incident was classed as a ‘never event’ — a serious, entirely preventable, incident that should never have happened, but in this case the patient was not harmed.
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"It shouldn't have happened," says girl's mother. This terrible tale of loss has been officially investigated by NHS England to see if health professionals could have done more to prevent it.
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Isle of Wight NHS say they launched an immediate Serious Incident Investigation to find out what went wrong and found it was an isolated incident.
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The NHS Chief Executive says the inspection will provide an important opportunity to demonstrate the improvements they have made.
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As a result of the findings contained in the report, Healthwatch Isle of Wight have made five recommendations to improve the experience of people with dementia on Shackleton ward.
