Care home abuse at Sycamore House (Granary Care Home) Wraxall, Somerset.

Alzheimer sufferer’s family secretly filmed three staff on CCTV horrifically abusing their elderly mother at the Granary care home in Wraxall, near Bristol, in 2014. Glady’s died not long afterwards.
Daniel Baynes,Tomaz Gidaszewski and Janusz Salnikow abused Gladys Wright, and quite possibly more vulnerable residents, at Granary Care Home (Wraxhall, Somerset). Where are these abusers now??
The home even changed it’s name, and address, to ‘Sycamore Lodge’, Lodge Lane, Nailsea (North Somerset). They apparently managed this by using a different entrance for mail delivery’s. The home is run by Shaw healthcare.
Carers Want Competence held an interview via telephone conversation with Gladys’s son (James) this evening (9/12/2019) and amongst other things, heard how the attitude of Jeremy Nixey (CEO of the home) was “disgusting”. James told us that Nixey “tried to claim that evidence of the abuse ‘would have come to light without employing the camera’. Jeremy Nixey had actually also said that on TV !!
James said he was shocked how “An educated man saying such things, totally against common sense. Where’s the guarantee that it would have ever come to light? What about the people that are abused before it came to light, if ever it did”.
James told us that Nixey even had the cheek to say in a meeting, together with a lot of other residents families, that it was “against the dignity of the resident (my mother) to be filmed! Yes, it is, but it’s obviously a great indignity to have strangers doing personal care and abusing you! What a stupid thing to say”.
My mother had the most advanced stage of Alzheimer’s and the most difficult to get to eat and drink, yet she survived most on the floor because I’d go in everyday for hours to make sure she ate and drank, this shows that the residents that didn’t have family going in to make sure their loved ones were being looked after correctly’ died prematurely in my opinion of starvation, dehydration or both, yet, again in my opinion, it’s reported as ‘attributed to Alzheimer’s”.
James also told us “They used medication as a ‘medical cosh’. They also held my mothers nose and forced her to take Rispidone. I’d told them not to give her any drugs without informing the family first, it was ignored!
I caught it on film, holding her nose, and before I revealed that I had fimed it I asked the senior nurse if they were forcing mum to take anything, she said ‘no’, but of course I knew the truth because I’d filmed that very same senior nurse actually holding my mothers nose and making her take that vile drug”.
James does recognise that “there were some fantastic carers at the home too, but also many bad ones that continued to work there after the abuse”.
They hired so-called nurses that are really not like the nurses you might find in a hospital, more like hospital rejects. I really don’t mean that in a nasty way, just the way it seemed when you go in and say ‘my mother’s not well’ and they say ‘we know’ and then you say ‘have you taken temp, blood pressure’, and they say “no”.
“I had to use my own oximeter to read my mums oxygen levels as her low levels were a medical emergency. The nurse that was in charge then agreed to phone an ambulance, but then they telephoned the person who was in charge to ask prmission to call the ambulance.
The senior nurse left not long afterwards and other staff were dismissed because of how they were abusing, and filmed doing it, but they apparently hadn’t done enough to be prosecuted. Another staff member was teasing my mother in a horrible way, disgusting.
Mum didn’t recover from that Illness and she died”.
The home changed the name of The Granary and even managed to change the postcode by having mail delivered to another entrance”.
The three staff members pleaded guilty and were given lenient sentences for the offences.
Shaw healthcare said it would “remove and retain the contents” of any cameras it finds, and “must consider the legal issues around filming people mentally unable to give permission”. They deny that this basically amounted to a ban.
“Given the legal issues around filming people without their consent … we ask relatives and residents to discuss the placement of cameras with us before they do it, that way, we can have an open dialogue to address the reasons behind why families want to place cameras in the service user’s room, and also to ensure that when cameras are installed it is done so in a way that complies with UK law, regulation and is in the service user’s best interest”.
Shaw Healthcare said they had taken advice from Care Quality Commission and they “accept that cameras can play an important role in identifying incidents of abuse by staff or other service users”.
However they said they must consider the “legal issues around filming people without their consent and the ability of those who may not have the mental capacity to give proper permission”.
Say ‘Hi’ to Peter Jeremy Nixey (if you see him); Chief Executive of Shaw healthcare Group, who attempted to minimise the seriousness of Gladys Wright’s horrific abuse by three of his employees at Sycamore Lodge Care Home, between Wraxall and Nailsea, North Somerset (previously named ‘The Granary’).
Jeremy is also founder of My Care My Home and Chief Executive of The Shaw Foundation charity.
I seriously question the suitability of this ‘person’ in having anything to do with vulnerable people.
LINK to the full post, the associated video, and Jeremy’s views here:

Nixey’s business profile:
https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/…/LWl_Ttj6t…/appointments
Baynes was jailed for four months, Salnikow was given a suspended jail sentence and Gidaszewski a community order.
Tim Sykes, who had placed his mother and sister under the Granary’s care, described the unit’s policy as “completely outrageous”.
Tim said: “If I was concerned and wanted to check up on my relatives, I should have that option. I don’t think it’s spying, I think that looking after the public is not a private job.”
Granary Care Home horrific abuse still haunts the family.
Posted by Carers Want Competence.

Say ‘Hi’ to Jeremey Nixey jeremy nixey Chief Executive of Shaw healthcare Group, who attempted to minimise the seriousness of Gladys Wright’s horrific abuse by three of his employees at Sycamore Lodge Care Home, between Wraxall and Nailsea, North Somerset (previously named ‘The Granary’).
Jeremy is also founder of My Care My Home and Chief Executive of The Shaw Foundation charity.
I seriously question the suitability of this ‘person’ in having anything to do with vulnerable people.
LINK to the full post, the associated video, and Jeremy’s views here: