A mental health trust did not record a cause of death in many cases, a review finds.
It analysed methods and data from between April 2019 and October 2022 and found:Clinical staff with no confidence in the trust's mortality figuresBetween April 2019 and September 2022, 1,868 deaths had an ethnicity recorded as "not stated" and 1,009 as "not known"
"Clearly, the scale of the deaths crisis and the deaths problem is greater than we in the campaign thought and told them."Heather Coleman said she had not wanted her daughter to be discharged from hospitalHer mother, Heather Coleman, said her daughter was discharged too early from hospital by NSFT. Five weeks after leaving Northgate Hospital, in Great Yarmouth, Ellen's body was discovered by her father at home in Beccles.Image caption,Stuart Richardson, chief executive officer at NSFT, said: "In recent years, we have made significant improvements to the way we handover between teams and involve people in the planning of their care.
Rather than providing assurance, the report raises concerns the trust vastly under-reported deaths, that it attributed deaths to Covid when it had no evidence that was the case and it did not analyse deaths or look at trends.
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