Care Homes: Standards
(asked on 5th September 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many (a) NHS and (b) private care homes have been sanctioned for cases of neglect in the last 12 months.
This question was answered on 13th September 2017
For the year 2016 under the offence of ‘care provider ill treatment/wilful neglect of an individual or breach of duty of care’, 17 had cautions issued, two were fined, 72 were proceeded against and 25 were convicted.
The official statistics provided by the Ministry of Justice do not distinguish between National Health Service and private care homes, nor do they categorise offences by reference to ‘sanctions’.