Government delays being blamed for a hold-up in the first such public inquiry.
A public inquiry into the deaths of Essex mental health patients cannot start because of government delays, according to its chair.
The Essex Mental Health Independent Inquiry has faced difficulties since it began work in 2021 under its previous chair, Dr Geraldine Strathdee. The new chair, Baroness Lampard, said she had written to Health Secretary Victoria Atkins in December 2023, setting out the proposed scope of the revamped inquiry.she wrote: "On 27 February 2024, I wrote to the secretary of state for health and social care requesting an update on the terms of reference. The inquiry is currently awaiting a response to this letter.
Dr Strathdee had previously stated that some 2,000 people had been identified as having died either while they were patients on an Essex mental health ward or within three months of being discharged, between 2000 and 2020.A DHSC spokesman said: "Our deepest sympathies go out to the bereaved families in these cases.
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