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2 days ago
- Health
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Ipswich Hospital dietitian who put frail patients at risk banned
A dietitian who exposed vulnerable and frail patients to "risk of harm" and lied about visiting a patient who had died nearly a month before has been struck Brown failed to maintain accurate records while working at Ipswich Hospital between May 2019 and April 2020, the Health and Care Professions Tribunal Service (HCPT) had sole responsibility for carrying out home visits for cancer patients, working with those having radiotherapy, and people with motor neurone has now been banned from working as a healthcare professional after a panel ruled his actions amounted to misconduct and he presented an "unacceptable risk to future service users". "Practitioners and the public would be aghast were there to be no restriction imposed on a practitioner against whom such findings had been made," the HCPT said. Brown was working with the East Suffolk and North East Essex Foundation Trust's Oncology Dietetic Team, covering a period of failed to record full clinical information from his appointments with 18 service users and provide full clinical documentation about interventions with 14 HCTP report said he also did not review patients or complete their notes within a "timely manner", on one occasion taking five months before recording a home 21 February 2020, Brown recorded that he had seen a patient in December 2019, even though he couldn't have, as they had died the month before. 'Neglectful' Brown accepted his practice "had been below that required" and considered that he "should have made his recording keeping a higher priority".He said personal circumstances had "put him under pressure" and the impact of his work and his personal life had "adversely affected his wellbeing".But the panel decided his fitness to practise had been impaired and imposed a permanent ban, which comes into force from 5 September."His lack of application to his role would be considered by fellow practitioners to have seriously undermined the collective responsibility of upholding and maintaining the standards of their profession," the HCTP said."Similarly, it was decided the public would be concerned if a practitioner who had ignored the wellbeing of those under his care, and had been so neglectful of his responsibilities over such a long period of time, were to be allowed to continue in practice without some form of restriction on his practice." Follow Suffolk news on BBC Sounds, Facebook, Instagram and X.
BBC News
20-06-2025
- Climate
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Suffolk first area in UK to officially enter heatwave
Suffolk has become the first county in the UK to officially enter a heatwave, after temperatures surpassed 27C for a third consecutive dayA temperature of 29.3C was recorded in Santon Downham, near Brandon, on Thursday and more hot weather is expected over the temperatures due to reach 31C, utilities company, Anglian Water, is urging people to only use what they need over the weekend, while the trust in charge of Ipswich Hospital urged people to stay comes as the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) issued an amber heat-health alert for all English regions - the first since September 2023. Ian Rule, director of water services for Anglian Water, said while supplies were "currently in relatively good health across the region", it was asking everyone to use "a little less wherever they can". "When the weather heats up, the demand for water significantly increases which puts added pressure on the water network," he said."When everyone tries to draw on the water supply at the same time water pressure can dip, so customers may notice water can't flow from their taps as freely as usual." Nick Hulme is the chief executive of East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust (ESNEFT) which runs Ipswich Hospital."We do plan to have additional staff on at the weekend in A&E, particularly for people with respiratory and cardiac conditions because we do see a rise in people presenting with those conditions in the very hot weather," he urged people to stay hydrated, wear sun cream, cover heads and check on vulnerable and elderly neighbours or family members."Of course we don't want to be killjoys - we want people to enjoy the great weather when it's here, but just to understand the associated health risks because of the impact [it can have] on them and health services," he told BBC Radio Suffolk."We're pretty stretched most of time so anything that people can do to keep the pressure, particularly, off our emergency departments will really help." For a heatwave to be declared by the Met Office a threshold temperature needs to be met for at least three consecutive the heat being record-breaking for 2025, temperatures are still below the June peak of 35.6C in over the weekend are expected to remain high with places like Ipswich, Woodbridge, Beccles and Bury St Edmunds forecast to see between 25C and 31C both along the Suffolk coast are expected to be a little cooler, however. Follow Suffolk news on BBC Sounds, Facebook, Instagram and X.
