Independent review of Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust

Professor Oliver Shanley · work from 2022 · published 2024

What this was

Independent review after undercover filming of abuse at the Edenfield Centre and wider concerns about the trust. It described a closed culture, poor leadership and patients who were not safe.

Why it sits in the hub

Edenfield is Winterbourne View a decade later, inside an NHS trust. The Lampard Inquiry is examining whether Essex was an outlier or a national pattern of inpatient mental health care.

Findings

Finding 1
Patients on an inpatient mental health ward were abused, and the culture did not allow staff or families to stop it.
Culture and conduct Mental health safety Speaking up
Finding 2
Board oversight of quality in mental health inpatient services was weak.
Leadership and boards Regulation and oversight

Recommendations in this hub

Paraphrase of the public recommendations, not the official text.

1In progressThe trust and NHS England
Rebuild leadership and culture so that abuse is not explained away as a difficult ward.
Culture and conduct Leadership and boards
2In progressThe trust
Listen to patients and families as a primary source of intelligence about wards.
Listening to patients and families Mental health safety