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23-05-2025
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High-security hospital 'still needs to improve'
A high-security psychiatric prison is still in need in need of "urgent improvement" the healthcare watchdog has said. Rampton Hospital, run by Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (NHFT) has been rated "requires improvement" by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) following an unannounced inspection in March. It was rated "inadequate" in January 2024 with the NHS trust under close scrutiny at the time over its care of Valdo Calocane, who carried out the Nottingham attacks in June 2023. While the CQC found some "clear improvements" had been made at the hospital, it said the trust had work to do "to address staff shortages and support staff". Rampton provides services to people who are detained under the Mental Health Act 1983 and are classified as having a learning disability, mental illness or psychopathic disorder. The latest CQC visit of the site follows a series of inspections that began in June last year as part of a 12-month inspection programme the watchdog has carried out at the wider trust. This was prompted by a special review into NHFT for which the final report was published in August last year. During the latest inspection, staff reported incidents where the hospital wards were "not meting safe staffing levels" with therapies and activities "frequently cancelled" due to staffing shortages. Managers told inspectors the wards "hardly ever" had the right number, experience and gender of staff to keep patients and staff safe. Between 1 March 2024 and 27 February 2025 staff submitted 777 incident forms where the reasons stated were "clinically unsafe staffing", the report said. Sometimes staff were working alone at night, leaving them unable to take breaks and some unhappy they were regularly moved from their ward to support others. Managers told inspectors lone working left staff feeling "anxious, isolated and unsafe". In the report, released on Friday, the CQC said it had found four breaches of regulation during its latest inspection, related to safe care, safeguarding, privacy and dignity, premises and equipment and safe staffing. The watchdog said it had asked the trust to submit a plan showing what action it was taking to address the concerns but added it had provided assurances around staffing concerns. Leaders at the trust showed it had measures in place to to minimise lone working and that the service was in the middle of a large recruitment drive. The CQC added staff at Rampton respected people's privacy and dignity, were responsive to people's needs, provided help, emotional advice and advice when they needed it and worked well with partner organisations. Greg Rielly, CQC deputy director of operations in the Midlands, said: "We have told leaders at Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust where urgent improvements are needed. "The service needs to build on the positive areas in our report and focus on making the service safer for people." In April, the BBC revealed the trust announced plans to withdraw from a contract to provide healthcare to prison inmates at seven jails across the East Midlands and an immigration centre. Dr Susan Elcock, executive medical director and deputy chief executive of Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, said the service was pleased the CQC reflected on improvements it had made. She added: "We welcome inspections as they are an important way to understand how we are doing and highlight areas where we can do better. "Where the CQC told us we needed to take urgent action, we immediately took steps to address the issues raised. "The CQC noted among the improvements those relating to physical health support and described care plans as personalised and truly reflecting patients' needs. "Whilst we recognise we still have a way to go, I would like to thank colleagues for their work to date. "We are absolutely committed to making further improvements to ensure our services consistently provide excellent, safe care and will continue working closely with the CQC, our colleagues, our patients and their families to achieve this." Follow BBC Nottingham on Facebook, on X, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@ or via WhatsApp on 0808 100 2210. Troubled NHS trust to quit prison health contract Secure hospital is improving, report says Inspectors take action against psychiatric hospital Care Quality Commission (CQC) Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
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09-04-2025
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Troubled NHS trust to quit prison health contract
An NHS trust has announced its plans to withdraw from a contract to provide healthcare to prison inmates. Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (NHFT) is currently responsible for looking after prisoners at seven jails across the East Midlands and an immigration centre. In a letter to staff, seen by the BBC, the trust said it had taken the "difficult" decision so it could focus on making improvements in other areas after a damning report from the Care Quality Commission (CQC). Last year, the watchdog published a review, known as a Section 48, criticising the trust, which had been responsible for the care of paranoid schizophrenic Valdo Calocane, who fatally stabbed three people in Nottingham in June 2023. The CQC ordered the trust to make improvements after identifying "a series of errors, omissions and misjudgements" by mental health services over Calocane's care. In its letter to staff, the trust said: "The board felt that we were unable to maintain the quality improvements we have made, in part due to our need to focus capacity and resources on the Trust's improvement journey following the Section 48, CQC and homicide report recommendations." It added: "We have also had difficulty recruiting into these services on a sustainable basis, and the consensus was that a specialist provider might have more success with this. "And when, certainly from a regulatory point of view, our focus must be on the Section 48 improvements, we felt that a specialist provider may be better placed to make the improvements needed in the offender health setting." Under the current contract, the trust cares for inmates at HMP Nottingham, HMP Ranby and HMP Lowdham Grange in Nottinghamshire. The contract also covers HMP Fosse Way in Leicestershire, HMP Morton Hall, Swinderby Immigration Centre, HMP Lincoln and HMP North Sea Camp in Lincolnshire. The trust's chief operating officer Becky Sutton said: "We can confirm that we have served notice on the offender health (prison healthcare) contracts that we currently deliver on behalf of NHS England. "Following the Section 48 recommendations, our priority is to focus our capacity and resources on achieving the objectives of our Integrated Improvement Plan. "We will be working closely with colleagues who are affected, partners at NHS England and prison services to support a smooth transition of services when a new provider is identified, and until that time our teams will continue to provide care in these settings." The trust said the decision did not affect Rampton Hospital, in Nottinghamshire, where it is responsible for the care of prisoners at the secure mental health unit. Follow BBC Nottingham on Facebook, on X, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@ or via WhatsApp on 0808 100 2210. Call for review after first inmate death at new jail 'Repeated failures' at jail where three men died CQC 'gave legitimacy' to trust before Nottingham attacks Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
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09-04-2025
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Troubled NHS trust to quit prison health contract
An NHS trust has announced its plans to withdraw from a contract to provide healthcare to prison inmates. Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (NHFT) is currently responsible for looking after prisoners at seven jails across the East Midlands and an immigration centre. In a letter to staff, seen by the BBC, the trust said it had taken the "difficult" decision so it could focus on making improvements in other areas after a damning report from the Care Quality Commission (CQC). Last year, the watchdog published a review, known as a Section 48, criticising the trust, which had been responsible for the care of paranoid schizophrenic Valdo Calocane, who fatally stabbed three people in Nottingham in June 2023. The CQC ordered the trust to make improvements after identifying "a series of errors, omissions and misjudgements" by mental health services over Calocane's care. In its letter to staff, the trust said: "The board felt that we were unable to maintain the quality improvements we have made, in part due to our need to focus capacity and resources on the Trust's improvement journey following the Section 48, CQC and homicide report recommendations." It added: "We have also had difficulty recruiting into these services on a sustainable basis, and the consensus was that a specialist provider might have more success with this. "And when, certainly from a regulatory point of view, our focus must be on the Section 48 improvements, we felt that a specialist provider may be better placed to make the improvements needed in the offender health setting." Under the current contract, the trust cares for inmates at HMP Nottingham, HMP Ranby and HMP Lowdham Grange in Nottinghamshire. The contract also covers HMP Fosse Way in Leicestershire, HMP Morton Hall, Swinderby Immigration Centre, HMP Lincoln and HMP North Sea Camp in Lincolnshire. The trust's chief operating officer Becky Sutton said: "We can confirm that we have served notice on the offender health (prison healthcare) contracts that we currently deliver on behalf of NHS England. "Following the Section 48 recommendations, our priority is to focus our capacity and resources on achieving the objectives of our Integrated Improvement Plan. "We will be working closely with colleagues who are affected, partners at NHS England and prison services to support a smooth transition of services when a new provider is identified, and until that time our teams will continue to provide care in these settings." The trust said the decision did not affect Rampton Hospital, in Nottinghamshire, where it is responsible for the care of prisoners at the secure mental health unit. Follow BBC Nottingham on Facebook, on X, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@ or via WhatsApp on 0808 100 2210. Call for review after first inmate death at new jail 'Repeated failures' at jail where three men died CQC 'gave legitimacy' to trust before Nottingham attacks Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
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05-02-2025
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Name NHS staff who failed in killer's care, families say
The mother of one of the victims of the Nottingham attacks says "names must be named" for NHS staff involved in the failings of triple killer Valdo Calocane. Barnaby Webber and Grace O'Malley-Kumar, both 19, and Ian Coates, 65, were stabbed to death by Calocane, who has paranoid schizophrenia, on 13 June 2023. An independent review into his NHS treatment and care, published on Wednesday, said it showed the "system got it wrong" and identified a catalogue of errors. At a press conference in London, Mr Webber's mum Emma Webber said the professional implications of being named were no comparison to the loss of a family member. The review, by Theemis Consulting, looked into the treatment given to Calocane by Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust before the killings, as well as the interactions the NHS had with other agencies involved in his care. The report found a number of failings, including his risk not being "fully understood, managed, documented or communicated", and identified missed opportunities to take more assertive action towards Calocane's care. As it happened: Families condemn triple killer's NHS care NHS England said it was "clear the system got it wrong" and apologised to the victims' families "on behalf of the NHS and the organisations involved". Similarly, Ifti Majid, chief executive of the Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, apologised and said it would accept the report "in its entirety". Dr Sanjoy Kumar, the father of Grace O'Malley-Kumar, said he would be writing to Health Secretary Wes Streeting to order the mental health trust to hold individual clinicians "responsible". "We demand accountability," he added. Since the publication of the report, which Mrs Webber described as a "horror show", the government repeated its commitment to an inquiry into the attacks, with work ongoing to establish its scope. But Neil Hudgell, solicitor for the families, said: "We want it to have teeth, and be judge-led." Mrs Webber called on the government to make the inquiry statutory, and pleaded for ministers to "make this trauma stop, and make our fight stop now". She added: "I do think it's time now that we get the opportunity to meet with the prime minister." Calocane was sentenced to a hospital order in January 2024 after pleading guilty to three counts of manslaughter on the basis of diminished responsibility, and three counts of attempted murder after using Mr Coates's van to drive into three pedestrians. Speaking outside Nottingham Crown Court following sentencing, Mrs Webber said "true justice has not been served", adding the families had been "let down" by the police and the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS). In May last year, judges ruled Calocane's sentence was not unduly lenient. Follow BBC Nottingham on Facebook, on X, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@ or via WhatsApp on 0808 100 2210. Killer evaded medication over needle fear, report says Families condemn 'major failures' in triple killer's NHS care
