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Disabled wheelchair user detained and arrested by South Yorkshire police. They have been asked for comment. We were contacted by 33yr old Dan, who had been a patient in The Breightmet Centre for Autism until CQC ordered its closure after a second ‘Inadequate’ rating. There had been a systematic catalogue of issues involving neglect and abuse, which included a care worker assaulting a patient whilst eight others stood around and watched it happen. Other issues included the improper use of restraint, with one patient being restrained 38 times in 18 days. Staff did not have appropriate skills, training was wholly inadequate, and some were sleeping during shifts. After the closure of Breightmet, Dan, a friend of Lauren Bridges, was moved to a temporary care home. His social worker then arranged an induction visit to a more permanent placement in Sheffield. On 16th March Dan went to see the home, accompanied by his friend Jay. The name of the care home in question isn’t going to be publicly disclosed at this point as we’re still hoping for improvement and resolve. Dan was shown around and promised that he would be involved in various activities, including social and support groups, and being taken to MIND. But after he moved into the new home on 4th April, it quickly became apparent that what Dan had been promised was not likely to happen and he is unhappy with the move. He feels there is ‘little interaction, inconsistent, inadequate support’, and his ‘dignity is being breached’. Dan said, “I’m unable to weight bear, I have to be hoisted and I need help with my personal care because I'm doubly incontinent”. “When I was at Breightmet centre I was catheterised, but a nurse named Mildred pulled my catheter out and now I have to buy my own pads. Staff are not thorough with washing or drying me and they don’t even use barrier cream to keep my skin integrity, which has resulted in painful sores from my urine”. Dan continued, "Compared to previous placements I do feel safer but don't feel this place is equipped to be my placement. My social worker is looking for somewhere else". “They’re all very cliquey, care about each other, so protect each another if anything happens”. “I've been asked to lie before, but I hate dishonesty so told my mum”. Dan said that ‘access is not wheelchair friendly, so sometimes gets stuck on the step and has difficulty going through doors.’ On 8th April, four days after moving in Dan wanted to spend some time away from the home with his friend Jay. He told me “Staff didn't want me going out, but they did let me leave”. Jay confirmed this to me this evening and said “Before we left one of the staff grabbed his arm and pulled it way form the armrest on his chair, saying he'd assaulted another staff member, which he didn't”. Jay added “He [Dan] was just so overwhelmed and needing space. He kept telling them to leave him alone and to not touch his chair”. Whilst Dan was out with Jay, they were confronted by South Yorkshire police officers, who told them that that Dan is a "very high-risk missing person", was to be detained and taken back to the home because staff were apparently concerned for his welfare. Dan said “I do have autistic meltdowns and trauma issues, but I don't see how that makes them doing what they did ok, and I was very scared. They had let me out. It’s all very confusing”. Dan told the officers that he didn't want to go yet and asked them to 'move out of his way' and attempted to continue where he was going. A female officer stood in front of him, later insinuating that Dan had intentionally run into her leg. He was detained, pulled from his wheelchair onto the ground, and arrested “under suspicion of assault of a PC”. He informed the officer that he has osteoporosis, but excessive and inappropriate force was continued to be used. Regardless of Dan making it clear that he is afraid of male uniformed officers because he had previously been abused, the officer still sat on top of Dan, holding his wrists, whilst another placed leg straps on him. Dan became more traumatised and continued his struggle, at one point attempting to bite the officer’s hand. You can see the officers’ hand ‘go for’ Dan’s throat, and although this was a reaction, it was totally unacceptable. Dan told me "I was a missing person reported as a risk to himself. I hadn't committed any offence and I honestly don't recall running inti her, and I don't understand why he grabbed my throat". He was subsequently returned to the home against his will, and regardless of the fact that he does have mental capacity, he is not on any treatment order, he not under section and he is not subject to Deprivation of Liberty. He has a curfew of midnight to return back to the home when he goes out. His friend Jay, who filmed the arrest, and is extremely supportive to Dan, told me he is helping his friend as much as he can, spending time with him and taking him out. He says because life in the new home isn’t as Dan was promised and expected, Dan feels mentally drained, unwell, and therefore he becomes more anxious and overwhelmed. I spoke to Dan again yesterday and he said he feels “unfairly treated and it’s causing me to have suicidal thoughts. I will end up dying in here. I will snap and harm myself and they won't even realise till I'm dead”. What has escalated Dan’s emotions is the fact that on Friday 10th March, care home staff “shouted” at his mother. Carers Want Competence voluntary support are supporting and keeping contact with Dan,

Keith Smith from Bishops Cleeve (Cheltenham) gives a brief account of unacceptable gross negligence, which caused the death of both his parents, trauma and irreparable damage to him. Part 1 - Keith's father was placed onto 'end of life care' in Cheltenham General hospital in 2017.. Part 2 - Keith's mother died during an out-of-hours GP visit in the summer of 2021. Keith paid for a polygraph (lie detector test), which relates to the GP and a 'technician' sleeping in their car as Keith's mother lay dying. Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust have a reputation locally of using underhand actions to avoid public scrutiny and consequences.. Families we spoke to told us of 'false allegations, intimidation and bullying' tactics used by the Trust against relatives that dared to question decisions concerning vulnerable and disable relatives. They described this as 'illicit behaviour'.

Exposing Gloucester Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (GHNFT) poor care, neglect, abuse and covertly authorised DNACPR decisions of vulnerable and disabled patients without relatives knowledge. (Perpetrators names redacted). My organisation is called Carers Want Competence, and with twenty years’ experience within the health and social care sector, we offer free support; advocacy, referrals, mediation (online and in person). We can also help with public awareness when your concerns are disregarded and complaints are ghosted. I have GNS Press Association accreditation as a Freelance journalist. This is a very brief account of my own situation, so only within the past ten months. I had cared for my wife (Lucy) for more than twenty years, providing impeccable and extremely complex person-centred care. I was her Lasting Power of Attorney. I kept her safe from at least three secret Do Not Attempt Resuscitation orders, years of systematic hospital neglect and abuse, saving her life on many occasions. She had MS which after a while wasn't so debilitating in itself, but there were eight years of unresolved kidney stones and a fistula causing recurrent life-threatening urosepsis. Lucy was asymptomatic, which doctors were aware of, yet rarely treated her with IV antibiotics until it escalated to many infection-induced seizures, causing several strokes, several heart attacks and even a cardiac arrest, but she did recover well from each of these life-threatening events. Lucy had a perfectly acceptable quality of life when she wasn't suffering from the urosepsis, she was extremely social, happy and content. But GHNFT refused to resolve the causal factors. Self-opinionated and judgemental doctors often said "She has MS, she 'must have' a poor quality of life and wouldn't tolerate" the small surgical procedures that would have prevented these chronic infections. . In July 2023 GHNFT covertly placed yet another DNAR on her without our knowledge, three covert Deprivation of Liberty authorisations and two covert ReSPECT forms. I became aware of this and threatened the hospital with legal action as all are required to have patient and/or legal representative involvement. I spoke out publicly, and this enraged GHNFT legal department. They subsequently made a serious false allegation about me. I was arrested on 4th August 2023 and prevented from caring for my wife whilst Gloucestershire Constabulary lackadaisically 'investigated'. In September Lucy had to be readmitted to hospital, only to be neglected again. I complained and was banned from the ward. Due to that, and the farcical Keystone Cop police 'investigation' I was prevented from being with her, and unable to ensure that she received adequate care. Lucy died on 2nd December 2023, not long after yet another typically unsafe discharge with unresolved urosepsis. I continued to post to social media in public interest and 'live-stream' outside Cheltenham General hospital as the Chief Executive was having a board meeting. This increased their rage to the extent that they fabricated another false allegation to discredit and silence me, this time accusing me of “harassment”, “malicious communications” and “potentially voyeurism” This is a worst example of the lengths that NHS hospital Trusts will go to in order to prevent scrutinisation, protect professional reputations and avoid exposure gross negligence. Underhand tactics are widely used by NHS in attempts to discredit those who raise serious and justified concerns. If YOU have a family member that is vulnerable or has comorbidities - YOU, or your relative might be next. Please, open your eyes to what can, and does happen every single day.

A Cheltenham based care agency owner is trying to prevent public knowledge that her employees don't bother to replace gloves after changing soiled pads. They don't have any regard for health & safety. They repeatedly used the same contaminated gloves that they wiped poo from to pop medication in Lucy's mouth, also putting those soiled glove fingers in her food on several occasions. Lucy Meszaros was subjected to incessant impatience, abruptness, bullying, bruising, rough manual handling, risky transfers, and ignoring complex care needs. Lucy had infections and died on 2nd December 2023 whilst in the inadequate 'care' of this company. I've mentioned this in previous posts but as police are involved and seem to be on the side of the perpetrators I can't publicly reveal identities again yet. If you have concerns and suspect that you may be using this company, contact us. Our safehouse guy downloaded up to four months of CCTV from four camera's but didn't include the audio. It's gone back today to rectify that.

Lucy Meszaros was diagnosed with MS in 2004. After the first few years it settled and was less debilitating. But then she developed stomach ulcers, kidney stones, faecal impaction, and sporadic faecal leakage from her vaginal area (medically documented and believed to be a fistula). My wife had urosepsis at least 35 times within nine years. Lucy did not present as clinicians expected. She was asymptomatic, blood infection markers often not overly concerning, but disorientation, confusion, slurred speech, weakness, fluctuating temperature and chills, discoloured and foul-smelling urine, combined with the faecal leakage. These were confirmed urosepsis indicators for Lucy and had never proven to be requiring anything less than urgent medical intervention. GP’s, community nurses and hospital doctors acknowledged that Lucy was asymptomatic. They also agreed that the vaginal faecal leakage and kidney stones were causal factors. Yet treatment for recurring urosepsis was always delayed and symptoms incorrectly attributed to MS. Oral antibiotics were systematically thrown like sweets at Lucy, sometimes slightly lessening symptoms, but did not eradicate infections. Clinicians subsequently acknowledged that she had developed “extremely high resistance” yet inconceivably increased the frequency of prescribing of them. Urosepsis was rarely treated with intravenous antibiotics until Lucy suffered from numerous infection-induced seizures resulting in several strokes, several heart attacks, and even a cardiac arrest. Many of these life-threatening incidents happened in hospital when doctors had ignored and refuted my concerns. Resolve of the causal factors was consistently spurned, based on judgmental opinions of “She has MS, she must have a poor quality of life”, “she wouldn't ‘tolerate’ surgical procedures”. Yet she had recovered from this chain of serious events time after time, albeit her dementia-like cognitive function deteriorated a little each time. I was labelled as “argumentative”, “refusing to accept and questioning medical decisions”, they began referring to me as “ex-husband”. (Lucy and I were married. Professionals were cognizant of that). Each and every request for access to Lucy's medical records was refused. My requests for urine cultures confirming whether infection was present before processing discharge were usually denied, yet had proven to be incontestable confirmation of infection, as opposed to blood test markers. Over nine years there was a plethora of unsafe discharges and dismissals of urosepsis. Here are just two examples of many: (1) 2018 During a nine-week admission, declared ‘medically fit for discharge’ several times, yet in fact was clearly unwell. I objected each time, requesting urine samples, saying they are the definitive test for Lucy. Discharges were delayed because urine samples did evidence infection, and intravenous antibiotics were reluctantly re-administered. Increased antagonism from senior staff became unmanageable, and although Lucy wasn’t well, I stopped objecting. Whilst waiting for patient transport Lucy suffered a heart attack. Doctors conceded that she ‘still had urosepsis, that this was in-fact the cause’ of it, and re-administered intravenous antibiotics. (This was when the first (of four) covert DNACPR’s were authorised without our knowledge and without discussion. It was revoked when I began recording doctors with my phone). (2) 2020 Lucy had arrived home with patient transport, unsafely discharged again, and totally unresponsive. A district nurse was here as witness. Lucy still had urosepsis. Incredulously, there was no end to unsafe discharges, failures and mistakes, they continued. Frequently, and sometimes within hours or days of ‘medically fit’ discharges, Lucy required GP visits, emergency ambulances and Rapid Response call-outs because infections often were not resolved. Each time clinicians dismissed concerns, I pleaded for them to look at, and to acknowledge the years of documented medical history, because that evidenced how often repeated incorrect diagnosis had resulted in multiple life-threatening events, and that subsequent to their dismissals, urine cultures had indubitably shown urine tests to be Lucy’s definitive infection confirmation as opposed to blood tests. When I spoke to GP's they regularly voiced their frustration at the hospitals but nothing changed. NHS legal department and safeguarding then intensified their false allegations to label me as “intimidating”, “aggressive” and “condescending”. There were years of blatant disregard for my Lasting Power of Attorney for Health and Welfare and several covert DNACPR authorisations without our knowledge, specifically at such times when Lucy was at her worst with urosepsis. There were also several covertly and improperly implemented Deprivation of Liberty and Respect forms without our knowledge. Lucy's MS consultant was opposed to it and revoked the DNACPR, saying "she has a reasonable quality of life". It was a vicious circle. I have videos to evidence years of horrific hospital neglect, left in soiled and wet continence pads for up to twelve hours, pressure ulcers, dressings so small that the adhesive border would stick to the open wound, not sitting Lucy up to feed her (when they bothered) and causing her to aspirate and develop chest infections,. Other videos and audio recordings of conversations evidencing my objections of the covert authorisations, made when Lucy was at her worst specifically with escalated infections that were trivialised, mocked and disregarded with raised voices from staff who became annoyed if I even dared to question their medical opinion. From sheer desperation and in public interest, because so many others experience the same, I aired our grievances on social media. I hoped that doctors would accept the severity of this risk to Lucy’s life. But Gloucestershire NHS became increasingly intent on silencing and discrediting me for exposing the neglect and abuse. After giving twenty years of impeccable, extremely complex person-centred care, keeping Lucy safe, and actually saving her life on many occasions, the hospital fabricated an even more severe false allegation of providing ‘inappropriate’ personal care to my wife. August 4th 2023, I was arrested and prevented from providing care for Lucy. (1) They allege this to have happened on 17th July. Why didn't they escalate this then? (2) Why would staff have allowed me to continue, unsupervised, to provide Lucy's personal care in their hospital for from 17th July for the remainder of the admission which was on 26th July? (3) If they genuinely thought my wife was being inappropriately treated or abused why didn't they either prevent me, or place a staff member in there to supervise? (4) Why would they have discharged my wife into my care, in our own home (26th July) and leave her unsupervised in my care if this was a genuine allegation? (5) Why would they even risk something like this behind closed doors with no safeguarding preventative method in place? (6) Why didn't the police arrest me until 20 days later 4th August? (7) Our formal carer (Sarah) was with Lucy all that day (17th) as she was for many of the other admission days, to avoid the usual staff neglect on Lucy. She has made a statement flatly refuting the 'allegation'. What a coincidence! This is apparently 'supposed' to have occurred on the same day that I had threatened them with legal action over MORE, all covertly authorised DNACPR's (three) ReSPECT (two) & several DOLS behind our back. (I am LPA H/W). I was prevented from continuing my caring role, which would have ensured that Lucy received medical attention quite likely to have saved her life. December 2nd 2023 Lucy died at home from unnoticed and untreated infection. March 14th 2024 Gloucestershire NHS fabricated another false allegation in a further attempt to avoid further exposure. I was arrested again, this time for “harassment”, “malicious communications” and “potentially voyeurism” whilst peacefully protesting outside the hospital in public interest whilst an executive board members meeting was taking place. Will Gloucestershire NHS forever be protected by the 'questionable' reluctance of Gloucestershire Constabulary, and never to be held accountable for their wrong-doings and illegitimate covert behaviour?

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GNS Press Association; information in public interest. Is your vulnerable relative in the care of Gloucestershire hospitals or any other NHS Trust, and do they rely on care staff to change incontinence pads? Have they developed pressure ulcers? Do you suspect they may have been left lying in mess like this for longer than is necessary? Contact us to add your name to a growing list that is being compiled to take to national media with a story that will bust the secretive boys club culture of NHS wide open.

Carers Want Competence raise awareness by reporting in public interest about health and social care avoidable failures, providing an informative picture to patients across hospital, residential, community, and GP settings. Poor care and treatment are an unacceptable breach of Human Rights, and can often lead to incidents of neglect and abuse, frequently causing avoidable serious harm and even death. Formal complaints are sometimes swept under the carpet and met with malicious narcissistic DARVO tactics, (Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim & Offender). Relatives that are main carers for vulnerable family members are sometimes subjected to DARVO, persecuted when raising concerns, and prevented from visiting their loved ones who may be disabled, elderly, or have dementia. Health and social care professionals use this retaliative form of counter-attack for the sole intention of discrediting the aggrieved, to mislead and manipulate public opinion, and to avoid scrutiny and accountability. Perpetrators often do not face consequences. Is it in the interest of the public for unprofessional, illicit, and often illegal behaviour such as this to be condoned by preventing disclosure? Contact us if you have experienced DARVO.

Doctors kept saying Lucy Meszaros "has an extremely poor quality of life". Yet she's always smiling, happy, talkative, very social, sits here buzzing with excitement singing along to School of Rock, knows most of the lines in Mary Poppins, IF YOU HAVE ANY COMPASSION, PLEASE SHARE AND EXPOSE THIS CORRUPTION. Lucy died on the morning of 2nd December 2023 at 03.39 after an hour of struggling to breath following vomiting what smelt and looked like faeces. (Many of you who know me will know we had been fighting to get Gloucestershire NHS to treat some kind of fistula that she had). But Gloucester Royal Hospital's NHS legal department, Cheltenham's Village Rd district nurses, 'some' GP's (not all) and Cheltenham Adult Social Services deviously joined forces. Glos hospitals legal team connived to have covert Do Not Attempt Resuscitation orders put her her behind my back several times. (The most recent was in July, Tivolli ward, Cheltenham) These conniving, lying, incompetent degenerates collaborated because I refused to be silent about the past 9 years they have refused to treat her for urosepsis until it escalated into seizures, strokes, heart attacks and even a cardiac arrest.

Police funding frivolously spent means that officers have to use field in the middle of a housing estate. Much much on our FB link https://www.facebook.com/carerswantcompetence/

Lucy Meszaros had MS. She had urosepsis at least 35 times caused by a fistula and kidney stones. Gloucestershire NHS refused to resolve them

This is my Mother. Only 72,, she had stomach ulcers, that's all, no comorbidities, nothing.. But Gloucestershire Royal hospital decided she was too elderly to have the ulcers resolved. Staff stood at the end of the bed growling at me as I begged them for help as I suctioned her she bled all over me. LOADS of abuse on this link, that is sent to us from families all over the UK. https://www.facebook.com/carerswantcompetence/

This is NOT an isolated incident of hospital neglect. Gloucestershire and Cheltenham hospitals legal department made a filthy, vile and disgusting allegation of: "I 'THINK' he 'MAY HAVE' inserted a finger into either her b*tt*m or v*g**a". This is a malicious and vindictive attempt to discredit and prevent the patients husband/full-time carer and LPA from exposing severe hospital negligence that amounted to abuse. But we will NOT be silenced. The 'allegation' is as follows: "We 'THINK' he 'MAY' have inserted a finger into either her bottom or vaxina". The "THINK" "May HAVE" is alleged to have happened three days BEFORE they discharged her home to her husband. If this were true, WHY didn't they raise this until almost two weeks later.. Why, IF this were true, would they allow the husband to continue providing personal care IN the hospital - and WHY, if this were true, would they send her home with her husband who they allege they "THINK" "MAY HAVE" abused her... He has been her main carer at home since 2004- has provided every aspect of care (including 'personal' care). For these hospitals to pick on disabled and vulnerable patients and use them as a punchbag is totally unforgivable. They CONTINUOUSLY ignore sepsis. Basically unresponsive again and escalated to heart attack. Frequent admissions to Gloucester Royal or Cheltenham hospital. This is what happens during EVERY single admission. Bedding absolutely soaking wet all the way from armpits to her knees. Huge puddle of urine dormant on the mattress leaking on the floor again (the same yesterday and day before). Husband (and LPA) sheepishly complain to ward sister. He then asks for someone to come and see the state of how she's left in. They're usually reluctant, but after a big PPPFFF (annoyed sigh) they come take a look. He asks if they will authorise more frequent checks as this is a regular occurrence and I feel that nobody takes it seriously. He requests sheets, blanket, nighty, pad, towels etc. (He takes their our own 'personal care' items because if he doesn't they can sometimes wait for over an hour for staff to fetch some. Also for the past eight years he has provided the 'personal care' in hospital, as he does at home, to avoid this hospital neglect). IT TOOK AN HOUR AND HALF TO CLEAN, WASH, CHANGE NIGHTY AND BEDDING. We do have recorded evidence of the neglect, the lies and the illegal covert behaviour that WILL be published in due course. Is this how your relative gets treated too?? Contact us at https://www.facebook.com/carerswantcompetence/ PLEASE SHARE