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An analysis
This information regards the disappearance of a rather large number of mental health patients was part of the original Ombudsman inquiry.
This has now changed, and the number has increased to over 2,000. We will be looking at the new proposed terms of reference for the investigation in a different post, please bear with me while I research and prepare the content.
In the meantime, let’s take a trip in time to that original piece of news that became known in 2019.
We need to look at this in the context of the information already discovered surrounding the deaths of some patients, as summarised in Remembrance: Remembering those who lost their lives due to medical gaslighting. where we have identified a pattern:
- Patients are targeted for some yet unknown reasons, but we suspect it is mostly when they complain or raise issues about their care, or when someone simply does not like them.
- Once a target is chosen, their conditions, whether psychological or physical, are intentionally aggravated by neglect, incorrect medication, etc.
- Records are then manipulated by a combination of omissions, and entering incorrect, and misleading information. This includes adding fictitious diagnoses and test results, not recording correct ones. and even amending retrospectively in clear breaches of GDPR regulations!
- As their conditions deteriorate, patients are left to die with their medical needs neglected and continually not recorded.
- If that was not enough, when physical ailments are not serious enough to cause death patients are driven to suicide by abuse and coordinated harassment.
If we can see these pattens out in the world, it is intuitive that these kinds of activities can be carried out even more covertly in an in-patient setting.
We will be reporting on the Ombudsman’s findings to date in the next few weeks and months, so bookmark our site!
Also, related but not yet in our posts: 15,000 Mental Health inpatients die in a year!.
More than 100 patients have gone missing from mental health hospitals at the Northeast London NHS Foundation Trust in the past two years.
Brookside secure unit, run by NELFT, in Goodmayes. Picture: Ken Mears (Image: Archant)
The trust provides mental health services for people living in Barking and Dagenham, Havering and Redbridge.
Mental health charity Sane said it was increasingly concerned at the number of patients absconding from facilities, and blamed years of “relentless cuts” for creating appalling conditions on wards.
NHS figures show that 135 patients who had been sectioned under the Mental Health Act went Awol – absent without leave – from North East London NHS Foundation Trust between April 2017 and March 2019.
A patient is deemed Awol if they leave the hospital they are detained in without permission, or fail to return after being allowed out on temporary leave.
Marjorie Wallace, chief executive of Sane, said: “We are increasingly concerned at the number of patients across the country that go missing for one reason or another, particularly those who become acutely ill without their medication and who can become a risk to themselves and others.
“We need urgent action to prevent patients going absent, or we risk an increase in suicides amongst this group.”
A spokesman for NELFT said: “We are constantly striving to improve our safety culture and the security of our sites. Last year additional fencing was put in place, which has proven beneficial to the security of our site.
“Initiatives that include our safe wards programme, improved working relationships with the police – through our bi-monthly liaison group with all involved agencies and monitoring our care planning and risk assessments – these are all steps NELFT has put in place to assist with patient safety.
“By proactively managing our patients who may be an absconsion [sic] risk, care planning and planning of leave, we are able to minimalize [sic] potential risk.
“Our approaches all point towards improved care and management of risk.”
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