An inquiry examining deaths of mental health patients in Essex will investigate alleged failings. As it opened, family members gathered outside the inquiry with pictures of their loved ones.
A public inquiry into why so many mental health patients have died in Essex has been told 'we may never have a definitive number of deaths'. Opening the inquiry, its chair Baroness Lampard told relatives the number 'will be significantly in excess of the 2,000 that were being considered' by a previous investigation.
' 'We need to get to the bottom of what the rot has set in within the system,' she added. A previous inquiry was abandoned because it did not have sufficient legal power to compel witnesses to give evidence. The new public inquiry has that statutory ability, which means it's a criminal offence for a witness to refuse to appear.
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