Cuts to study of killings by mental health patients ‘put people at risk’

Cuts to study of killings by mental health patients ‘put people at risk’ NHS England decision is risky and reckless, experts and victims’ families say

People have been put at risk because the NHS has stopped funding the automatic investigation of all killings by mental health patients, according to psychiatrists and victims’ families.

Experts who had looked into every such homicide for 20 years had to stop doing so last year after NHS England stopped paying the £100,000-a-year cost involved, the Guardian has learned. The Guardian