Metro – Day of truth of mental health cull
An inquiry into how thousands of patients died while receiving care from mental health facilities over more than two decades will start Monday, the Metro reports.
What is the Lampard Inquiry and what is it investigating?
The mother of a man who died at a mental health clinic in Essex has said she believes his death was one of many in a ‘cull of our most vulnerable, our most gentle, our most needy’.
Melanie Leahy gave the emotional statement about her son Matthew Leahy, 20, who died while he was an inpatient at the Linden Centre in 2012, a treatment centre which is part of the North Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust.
His death, along with almost 2,000 other patients, is set to be examined in a ‘long overdue’ probe.
The Lampard Inquiry will hold the first hearings to gather evidence about psychiatric treatment in Essex NHS trusts between 2000 and 2023.
Family say that it will expose a mental health system that is ‘failing not just here in Essex but everywhere’.
A lawyer representing more than 120 victims said the state of mental health services is an ‘ongoing scandal’, and said the inquiry was as important as those into the handling of the Covid-19 pandemic and the Post Office fraud convictions.
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Monday’s front pages continue to report on the backlash facing Keir Starmer and his government’s decision to scrap the winter fuel allowance. There are suggestions the government could face a rebellion in the Commons vote on Tuesday.
Elsewhere, other domestic stories make the front splash. The England football team and cricket news make up the back pages.