Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the findings of the Governance and assurance review of the Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust by the Good Governance Institute, published in March 2023.

Whilst we have not made a formal assessment, we announced on 23 January 2023 that we will be conducting a rapid review into mental health inpatient settings, with a specific focus on how we use data and evidence, including complaints, feedback and whistleblowing alerts, to identify risks to safety.

NHS England has also commissioned an independent review into the failings within the trust’s services reported at the Edenfield Centre and the failure within the organisation to escalate concerns and mitigate against patient harm. This is expected to conclude by no later than 30 September 2023.