The launch of a quality code three years after the Winterbourne revelations means some good has come out of the scandal according to David Brindle in his article in The Guardian, 11th September 2013.
Three years ago next month, whistleblower Terry Bryan set in train a sequence of events that was to send a devastating shockwave through the adult care sector and culminated last week in the sale of what remained of the company he was working for.
That company was Castlebeck and the shockwave has become known as Winterbourne View, the name of its hospital facility for people with learning disabilities and autism near Bristol, where Bryan was a charge nurse and where he had witnessed what he described in an email to management as the “confrontational and aggressive” approach of named staff towards vulnerable patients.
To read the full article: http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/sep/11/winterbourne-view-learning-disability-care-providers?CMP=twt_fd