Update on the Inquiry’s work and letter from the Chair to the Rt Hon Steve Barclay, Health Secretary
The Inquiry provided an update on 18 April 2023, regarding the Inquiry’s Chair, Dr Geraldine Strathdee, meeting with the Health Secretary, the Rt Hon Steve Barclay and Minister Neil O’Brien. Ahead of this meeting, Dr Strathdee wrote a letter to Mr Barclay setting out her concerns and requesting that the Inquiry is converted to a […]
Update on the Inquiry’s work and letter from the Chair to Paul Scott, CEO of Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (EPUT)
Since our update in January, the Inquiry team has been continuing to work on staff engagement. The Inquiry was asked by the Secretary of State to try again to encourage staff witnesses to come forward with evidence – we are now in the process of following through with this. We will be in a position […]
Open letter from Dr Geraldine Strathdee, Chair to the Essex Mental Health Independent Inquiry
On 12 January 2023, the Chair to the Inquiry published an open letter with an update on the Inquiry’s work: I am writing to update on the progress of the Essex Mental Health Independent Inquiry. Over the past year I have heard remarkable and sobering evidence from many families who have tragically lost their loved […]
Inquiry Press Release
Independent Inquiry launches consultation with families into Essex mental health deaths26 May 2021: The families of people who died while receiving inpatient mental health treatment at three Essex hospital trusts are being invited to get in touch with the independent inquiry set up to look into the circumstances of their deaths. The families and others affected […]
