Ministers Can Order Inquiry Or Review Into Failings Of English Mental Health Care Mental Health
Maria Caulfield, the mental health minister, told MPs on Thursday that she and Health Secretary Steve Barclay were considering whether to launch an inquiry because the same failings were occurring so often in so many different parts of the country. They would make a final decision “in the coming days”, she told the House of Commons, answering an urgent question tabled by her Labor shadow, Dr Rosena Allin-Khan. An independent inquest found this week that three teenage girls – Christie Harnett, 17, Nadia Sharif, 17, and Emily Moore, 18 – took their own lives within eight months after receiving inadequate care from the Tees, Esk and Wear valleys....