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Essex NHS mental health unit investigated over deaths
The Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust is being investigated following the deaths of up to 20 patients at one of its mental health units.
In an interview with BBC’s Victoria Derbyshire programme, Essex Police confirmed it was ‘conducting initial enquiries into a number of deaths which have occurred at the Linden Centre since 2000’.
The news follows fresh investigations into the death of Matthew Leahy, who was found hanged at the Linden Centre in 2012.
Two years later, an inquest concluded Leahy had been subjected to a series of failings and missed opportunities over a long period of time.
Furthermore, an inquest jury has found that another patient, Richard Wade, died in May 2015 at the Linden Centre after staff failed to remove a dressing gown cord that he used to take his own life.
The Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust said the history of serious incidents at the Linden Centre was of ‘great concern’.
It added it was ‘improving systems to ensure that investigations are carried out rigorously’.
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