Mental health deaths issue downplayed by those in heart of government – inquiry
The IndependentFor free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Please try again later {{ /verifyErrors }} An inquiry into mental health deaths in Essex has been told that the extent of the problem was “downplayed by those within the heart of government”. She said that Inquest, which carries out specialist casework around state-related deaths including when people die in mental health settings, has since 2008 worked on 49 cases that fall within Essex mental health services. She said that in October 2019, then Conservative health minister Nadine Dorries was asked if the government would announce a public inquiry into failings by mental health services in Essex. “She said that she had been advised by the Department for Health and Social Care that, and I quote, ‘public inquiries do not happen for individual cases’,” said Ms Lewis.
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