Demands for public inquiry amid 'catastrophic disaster' at mental health unit as alleged abuse exposed
Manchester council will ask the government for a public inquiry into a mental health unit at the heart of a BBC Panorama investigation aired last month. The calls for an inquiry come with fears that alleged abuse of patients at the Edenfield Centre, as claimed by the BBC, is happening at other Greater Manchester’s mental health treatment units.
Andrew Maloney, deputy chief executive of Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust which runs the centre, told councillors at a health scrutiny meeting today about the action taken in response. Other councillors questioned whether whistleblowers had reported these issues at the centre to the trust before the BBC Panorama investigation. They added that reports presented by GMMH to the committee in the past, sharing apparent progress made by the trust now appear to be ‘fabrication’ in light of the BBC programme.
“I fully understand you have a great number of well qualified, hugely committed people who work in your organisation," he added. "But it appears that you have systemic failure that’s on a magnitude that’s hard to understand.” Councillors on the city’s health scrutiny committee also slammed the trust by saying they find it ‘inconceivable’ that management were not made aware of the alleged behaviour towards patients by whistleblowers before they approached BBC journalists.
Reading out a statement, Greater Manchester Mental Health Trust deputy chief executive told the committee that the BBC did not inform the trust of the footage containing alleged abuse until September, after filming took place from March to June.
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