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Criticised Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust 'must improve' | |
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An under-fire health trust has been told by inspectors to significantly improve protection of mental health patients at risk of harm. | An under-fire health trust has been told by inspectors to significantly improve protection of mental health patients at risk of harm. |
Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust was issued the warning notice by the Care Quality Commission following a "focussed inspection" in January. | |
Last year a report blamed a "failure of leadership" for failing to investigate hundreds of patients' deaths. | |
The trust has previously apologised for failings and said systems had improved. | |
One of those who died while a patient in a Southern Health hospital in Oxford, was 18-year-old Connor Sparrowhawk, who drowned in a bath following an epileptic seizure. | |
The trust is one of the country's largest mental health trusts, covering Hampshire, Dorset, Wiltshire, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire and providing services to about 45,000 people. |