Thameside NHS Trust (Learning Disabilities Services) (Hansard, 26 October 1994)

§ Mr. Mackinlay

To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) if she will set up a further committee of inquiry into the disabilities services managed by Thameside NHS trust to cover the period before 1991; and if she will make a statement;

(2) if she will place in the Library the report of the Mental Health Act Commission in respect of client A, referred to in appendix I, paragraph 4, of the inquiry report "Learning from the Past", relating to aspects of learning disabilities services managed by Thameside NHS trust;

(3) where Mr. H, referred to in the inquiry report "Learning from the Past", relating to aspects of learning disabilities services managed by Thameside NHS trust, is now working;

(4) what action has been taken in respect of the recommendation set out at paragraph 17, appendix IV of the inquiry report "Learning from the Past" relating to aspects of learning disabilities services managed by Thameside NHS trust;

(5) what disciplinary action, warnings or counselling have been initiated in respect of senior managers or consultants referred to in the inquiry report "Learning from the Past", relating to aspects of learning disabilities services managed by Thameside NHS trust;

(6) what action she proposes in respect of the findings of the alleged assault against client B, referred to in appendix II of the inquiry report "Learning from the Past", relating to aspects of learning disabilities services managed by Thameside NHS trust; and what measures have been taken by the relevant health authorities since the publications of the report to remedy the "failure to investigate" detailed at paragraph 16 of appendix II;

(7) if she will initiate a further investigation into the complaints detailed in appendix V of the inquiry report "Learning from the Past", relating to aspects of learning disabilities services managed by Thameside NHS trust in respect of client E;

(8) if the police were informed of details of all earlier complaints in relation to the care of client C, detailed in 688W appendix III of the inquiry report "Learning from the Past", relating to aspects of learning disabilities services managed by Thameside NHS trust, when they investigated the circumstances surrounding the death of client C, which occurred some time between 22 March and 26 August 1991;

(9) if relatives or representatives of patients and clients were allowed to attend all hearings of the inquiry of Mr. Norman Warner, the findings of which are contained in the inquiry report "Learning from the Past", relating to aspects of learning disabilities services managed by Thameside NHS trusts;

(10) if all managers, consultants or other practitioners referred to in the inquiry report "Learning from the Past", relating to aspects of learning disabilities services managed by Thameside NHS trust who continue to be employed by Thameside trust or other successors to the former Basildon and Thurrock health authority have been fully exonerated by the findings of the inquiry;

(11) if Mr. H, referred to in the inquiry report "Learning from the Past" relating to aspects of learning disabilities services managed by Thameside NHS trust, has had his professional conduct examined by his professional body; and if she will make a statement;

(12) if the only disciplinary action taken in respect of matters examined by and referred to in the inquiry report "Learning from the Past", relating to aspects of learning disabilities services managed by Thameside NHS trust, were those detailed in paragraphs 6 and 7 of appendix V;

(13) if she will further investigate the detailed findings of the inquiry report "Learning from the Past", relating to aspects of learning disabilities services managed by Thameside NHS trust, in respect of client D contained in appendix IV of the report; and if she will set up a seperate inquiry into the finding that he was not recognised as being a patient requiring nursing as a terminally ill patient;

(14) what action has been taken to remedy the anxiety set out in paragraphs 2.10 and 2.11 of the inquiry report "Learning from the Past", relating to aspects of learning disabilities services managed by Thameside NHS trust;

(15) what action she proposes in respect of the findings of the assault against client A, referred to in appendix I, paragraphs 11 and 12, of the inquiry report "Learning from the Past", relating to aspects of learning disabilities services managed by Thameside NHS trust, as detailed;

(16) what prosecution or disciplinary action has been taken against Mr. H, referred to in the inquiry report "Learning from the Past", relating to aspects of learning disabilities services managed by Thameside NHS trust;

(17) on what grounds Mr. H, referred to in appendix III of the inquiry report "Learning from the Past", relating to aspects of learning disabilities services managed by Thameside NHS trust, was allowed to resign when confronted with charges of professional misconduct; and what further action the health authority took to ensure that he was not re-employed by another health or local authority in a caring capacity;

(18) if she will initiate a further investigation into the complaints detailed in appendix VI of the inquiry report "Learning from the Past", relating to aspects of learning disabilities services managed by Thameside NHS trust, in respect of client F.

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