Three times staff failed to get consent for procedures, the Care Quality Commission found.
An NHS trust has been fined £8,000 for failing to get consent from a deaf man or his family for hospital procedures.
The 55-year-old man, who was also autistic and had epilepsy, was admitted six times to Good Hope Hospital between May and October in 2019.Three times the hospital failed to follow regulations and get consent for using feeding tubes for the man when he was struggling with food, the watchdog's investigation found.
An LPA is someone who can be nominated by a person to take financial and health decisions on their behalf if they lose the ability to act for themselves.The CQC's head of hospital inspection, Bernadette Hanney, said the trust's failings were about consent, particularly when linked to mental capacity.
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