Urgent manhunt underway for prisoner on the run after ‘absconding’ from jail for brother’s wedding<\/a><\/p>\n“We have now charged two suspects in relation to this, and they will appear at court in the new year.<\/p>\n
“Since this incident was brought to our attention, we have been working with partner agencies to ensure that patients were safeguarded and to investigate criminality.<\/p>\n
“Anyone who has concerns about care they or a loved one has received should contact us or Crimestoppers.”<\/p>\n
NHS England commissioned an independent review of the trust running the unit, Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation (GMMH), following the BBC expose broadcast in September 2022.<\/p>\n
The Panorama programme showed patients being mocked, humiliated, bullied, restrained inappropriately and secluded for long periods.<\/p>\n
The independent review, published in January 2024, found poor leadership, with bosses “disconnected” from reality.<\/p>\n
The review found the unit had chronic staff shortages, low morale, a high turnover of staff and workers who felt “exasperated” at not being listened to.<\/p>\n
Patients and families told the report authors they were not believed when they raised concerns or complained about care standards.<\/p>\n
The review made 11 recommendations on patient care, clinical leadership, culture, workforce and governance.<\/p>\n
Jan Ditheridge, chief executive at GMMH, apologised after the release of the review and said an improvement plan was in place to address the issues raised.<\/p>\n
The two workers have been bailed to appear at Manchester Magistrates’ Court on March 25 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Support worker Sheryl Price, 45, of Eldergreen Close, Bolton, has been charged with 14 counts of ill-treatment against…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276983,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[49,48,84,393,394],"class_list":{"0":"post-276982","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-mental-health","12":"tag-mentalhealth"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}