{"id":414745,"date":"2026-01-15T13:51:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T13:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/414745\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T13:51:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T13:51:09","slug":"report-into-troubled-mental-health-trust-deeply-worrying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/414745\/","title":{"rendered":"Report into troubled mental health trust &#8216;deeply worrying&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">While she said she recognised there were some &#8220;amazing staff&#8221; in the trust, Webber added changes were needed within leadership.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The trust announced in November that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cx2pylyzz2zo\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Majid was set to retire in June 2026<\/a>, remaining in post for the public inquiry due to start in February. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, Webber said retiring was not the change she believed was necessary.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said: &#8220;How there hasn&#8217;t been a fundamental change in the leadership of the mental health trust is beyond me &#8211; I do not understand it. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;What more do we need to do? A national tragedy, three lives lost, three lives changed forever as well.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Greg Almond a solicitor representing two of the survivors, Wayne Birkett and Sharon Miller, said it was clear that a &#8220;significant amount of work&#8221; needed to be done.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said in a statement: &#8220;For the survivors, who deserve to have faith in the mental health provisions in Nottinghamshire, this is a deeply worrying assessment and they can&#8217;t help but be left with the feeling that nothing has been done to prevent a reoccurrence.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Almond said despite the scrutiny the trust had been under since June 2023, there remained &#8220;significant and glaring problems within the mental health provision in Nottinghamshire&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While she said she recognised there were some &#8220;amazing staff&#8221; in the trust, Webber added changes were needed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":414746,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[64,63,137,514,515],"class_list":{"0":"post-414745","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-mental-health","12":"tag-mentalhealth"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}