Thursday 17 June 2021

NHS mental health trust fined £1.5m over care failures that led to 11 deaths

NHS mental health trust fined £1.5m over care failures that led to 11 deaths An NHS mental health trust has been fined £1.5m over serious lapses in care that led to the death of 11 patients who were found hanging.

Mr Justice Cavanagh, the judge who imposed the fine, said a “litany” of failings in safety standards had been identified at Essex Partnership University NHS foundation trust (EPUT) over many years, which meant that it had failed to “prevent suicides”. The Guardian

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