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Debate in parliament as Essex petition is backed by more than 100,000 signatures
Melanie Leahy with her late son Matthew. Picture: Leahy family A bid for a public inquiry into deaths connected to mental health care will be […]
Matthew Leahy: Mother secures debate in Parliament over son’s death in NHS mental health unit
Matthew died aged 20 while in a mental health unit run by the NHS in Essex By Paul GallagherOctober 18, 2020 4:44 pm https://inews.co.uk/news/health/matthew-leahy-death-nhs-mental-health-parliament-debate-729318 A mother […]
CAN YOU SPARE A FEW MINUTES TO WRITE TO YOUR MP?
Mental health services have been failing nationally so so many families. I’m just a mum who is trying to find answers after her own sons […]
The death of Matthew Leahy: ‘Eight years on and my son has not had justice’
Investigations surrounding the death of Matthew Leahy while in NHS care have been reopened. The nursing regulator has reopened fitness to practice cases into three […]
Matthew Leahy death: Mother calls for public inquiry
A mother fighting for seven years to find out why her 20-year-old son died by hanging at a mental health unit has called for a […]
Justice for Matthew petition reaches 100k. ‘Thank you! You have been amazing, now the fight continues’.
To all Havering Daily Readers and many thousands of supporters nationwide. Melanie Leahy has been campaigning for 7 years to date. Asking for truth, accountability and change after the death of her only son Matthew […]
Ombudsman calls for national review of former NHS Trust’s failure to keep patients safe
The Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman has today called for a national review into years of potential failings to ensure patient safety at the North Essex Partnership University NHS […]
Inquiry ‘extremely dissatisfied’ with health trust
The chairwoman of the public inquiry into more than 2,000 mental health deaths in Essex said she was “extremely dissatisfied” with a health trust’s late […]
Falsification of safety records was ‘well known within the Essex context’ hears Lampard Inquiry
Falsification of safety records was ‘well known within the Essex context’ hears Lampard Inquiry The default response of many NHS trusts is denial and defensiveness, […]
Mental health inquiry into patient deaths to hear from health and safety execs
Hundreds died while under the care of the Essex Partnership University Foundation NHS Trust and the North East London Foundation Trust. An inquiry into the […]
New true crime podcast looks at Essex Mental Health scandal
ESSEX-based TV producer and true crime podcast host Naomi Channell has spent the last sixmonths working with families, ex-patients and experts on a new podcast […]
Essex man who was refused admission to mental health ward two days before death was neglected by NHS trust, inquest concludes
A coroner has ruled that he was neglected by the NHS trust An Essex man who expressed wishes to end his life multiple times but […]
Family calls for Essex mental health inquiry to include mother’s death
Exclusive: Andrea Waddington, who went three months without NHS psychiatric appointment, died after inquiry cut-off date A man whose mother killed herself after going three […]
‘Mental health patients are dying as inquiry officials twiddle their thumbs’
The UK’s largest-ever investigation into mental health services moves to the next stage this week, but bereaved relatives fear more patients will suffer by the […]
Sophie Alderman inquest: Nurse describes days before young woman’s death on mental health ward
Sophie Alderman’s observations had been downgraded from six checks an hour to just one, a jury heard. A young woman who died on an Essex […]
Woman ‘always put on brave face’ before tragic death while being treated on mental health ward, inquest told.
Woman ‘always put on brave face’ before tragic death while being treated on mental health ward, inquest told. A father was told a mental health […]
