Landmark inquiry launched into deaths of mental health patients in Essex

A public inquiry has opened, tasked with looking into the deaths of almost 2,000 mental health patients in Essex over more than 20 years.

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Its chair, Baroness Kate Lampard, said the true number of lives lost may never be known, and warned of alleged failings on a "deeply shocking" scale.

It’s the first statutory inquiry of its kind looking at the treatment of mental health inpatients, and could have a nationwide impact.

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