{"id":314462,"date":"2025-12-13T20:31:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T20:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/314462\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T20:31:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T20:31:11","slug":"northampton-hospital-staff-caught-on-cctv-assaulting-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/314462\/","title":{"rendered":"Northampton hospital staff &#8216;caught on CCTV assaulting patients&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In response, St Andrew&#8217;s has come up with an action plan including extra CCTV, a management restructuring and new executive appointments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A spokesman said: &#8220;We acknowledge that care at our Northampton hospital hasn&#8217;t always met the standards every patient deserves, and we are sorry to those affected.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We reported these issues to the CQC immediately and are working with the NHS and the CQC to deliver urgent improvements.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Their statement added: &#8220;Our action plan includes stronger staff training, new leadership, external expertise to foster an open culture and reducing agency staff to near zero.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;re also reviewing services to focus on complex mental health care for those who need us most.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;While change takes time, patients are already seeing early signs of improvement.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In response, St Andrew&#8217;s has come up with an action plan including extra CCTV, a management restructuring and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314463,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-314462","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}