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An anonymous letter to health regulators just over six months ago prompted a series of surprise inspections of the Lakeview Hospital facility on the outskirts of Londonderry.
Inspectors then uncovered a host of problems — including worries about patients’ money being “exposed to potential financial abuse”, the incorrect dosage of medication being given, and patients being kept in “stark” rooms without “privacy and dignity” — at Lakeview Hospital on the outskirts of Londonderry.
The letter was recieved by the Regulation and Quality Improvement Authority (RQIA) — the body responsible for regulating heathcare in Northern Ireland and carrying out inspections to ensure standards are up to scratch — on August 2 last year.
The inspection report that followed was published in September and found “a number of significant concerns relating to adult safeguarding and incident management; financial governance, staffing, physical health care and hospital governance”.
Amongst the findings, the inspection report noted that “some patients were regularly prescribed multiple anti-psychotics with dosages exceeding BNF recommendations”.
It also found that “staff had access to one patient’s bank card with a significant amount of funds”, and that “evidence indicated that patients’ monies were exposed to potential financial abuse”.
Part of the RQIA team included specialist “finance inspectors”.
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