{"id":27497,"date":"2018-02-08T23:53:39","date_gmt":"2018-02-08T22:53:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/02\/08\/gross-failure-in-mans-care-led-to-death-from-constipation\/"},"modified":"2018-02-08T23:53:39","modified_gmt":"2018-02-08T22:53:39","slug":"gross-failure-in-mans-care-led-to-death-from-constipation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=27497","title":{"rendered":"&#039;Gross failure&#039; in man&#039;s care led to death from constipation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Inquest into death of man with Down\u2019s syndrome criticises care home and hospital over his treatmentAn inquest into the early and preventable death of Richard Handley, a young man who had Down\u2019s syndrome and suffered lifelong constipation, has found \u201cgross [and] very significant failures\u201d at almost every stage of his care.The coroner, Peter Dean, criticised Handley\u2019s care provider, GP practice, psychiatrist, social workers and staff at Ipswich hospital when he recorded a narrative verdict at Ipswich coroners court. The multiple omissions of care, he said, created an \u201cextreme and tragic situation\u201d that led to Handley\u2019s death from constipation, a \u201ccondition that one is not expected to die of\u201d. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2018\/feb\/08\/gross-failure-in-mans-care-led-to-death-from-constipation\" target=\"_blank\">&#039;Gross failure&#039; in man&#039;s care led to death from constipation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inquest into death of man with Down\u2019s syndrome criticises care home and hospital over his treatmentAn inquest into the early and preventable death of Richard Handley, a young man who had Down\u2019s syndrome and suffered lifelong constipation, has found \u201cgross [and] very significant failures\u201d at almost every stage of his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}