Gateshead
Whickham North declaration 24th October 2024
Declaration of the result of the by-election for Whickham North and Swalwell, Gateshead Council, 24th October 2024.
24 Oct 2024
Lib Dems say ‘HEADS MUST ROLL’
26 Mar 2025
The Care Quality Commission’s report into the Sister Winifred Laver centre has been described as ‘chilling’ by Opposition councillors.
Lib Dem Cllr. Peter Maughan, who is also medical negligence lawyer, said: ‘This ‘inadequate’ centre has put its own patients at risk. Perhaps its worst feature is that the report tells us that managers ‘failed to learn from previous experiences’. The only word for that is incompetence.
We understand that Council officers are considering reducing the number of patients by a third, from sixty to forty. This means that provision will have to be made elsewhere at a cost of millions.
To reduce the capacity of a facility that was hailed as "state of the art" when it opened only one year ago, at great expense to the Council, is wasteful in the extreme. The Sister Winifred Laver Care Home was opened to serve the needs of some of our most vulnerable residents and we are shocked to discover just how badly these residents are being failed.
If this were the private sector, heads would roll and yet it seems that nobody is being held accountable for this dreadful failure. The Cabinet member for Adult Social Services, Councillor John Adams, should do the honourable thing and resign.
REMINDER: Labour Councillor Adams, was formally the cabinet member for Housing in Gateshead, which at the time of the change in cabinet had ranked up more than 6000 pending issues or repairs.
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