Care home operator fined £190,000
A WEST YORKSHIRE care home provider has been fined £190,000 for failing in its duty to provide safe care.
St Anne’s Community Services was prosecuted at Bradford Magistrates’ Court earlier this week following the death of Mr Kevin McNally
62 year-old Mr McNally died following a fall at a nursing home in Smithies Moor Lane, Birstall, West Yorkshire.
He reportedly broke his neck in a fall from a shower chair while he was loosely strapped in.
Jenny Ashworth, prosecuting, told the court that the accident could have been avoided, and that the provider had failed to adequately control the risk of serious injury.
Mr McNally, who had Down’s syndrome, epilepsy, dementia and a severe learning disability, had lived in the nursing home since 2012.
The registered provider, St Anne’s Community Services, based in Leeds, pleaded guilty to an offence of failing to provide safe care and treatment resulting in avoidable harm to a service user.
Debbie Westhead, Deputy Chief Inspector of Adult Social Care at the Care Quality Commission, said: “St Anne’s Community Services failed in its duty to ensure that care and treatment was provided in a safe way, and as a result Kevin McNally died. It is a tragedy which need not have happened.”
