O’Donnell told the inquiry that, at the end of 2024, he was asked to review thousands of incident reports raised by staff, some dating back to 2021.<\/p>\n
He said he was instructed by a senior member of staff, who said: “We need to get these gone.”<\/p>\n
They included incidents involving self-harm, assaults on staff and racial abuse, he explained.<\/p>\n
“The first thing that popped into my head was there’s an inquiry going on and they’re panicking about these because no-one’s looked at them – that was my first thought and that’s what I still think.”<\/p>\n
Talking about the way the trust acted at the time, he said: “There wasn’t, ‘Can there be a thorough investigation of these and can you feed back?’ It was, ‘We need these gone, we need these processed and we need them gone’.”<\/p>\n
O’Donnell said he initially closed some of the reports but stopped after becoming uncomfortable.<\/p>\n
“I thought, I can’t put my name to this and say I’ve thoroughly investigated it because I haven’t,” he told the inquiry.<\/p>\n
Asked what happened to the remaining reports, he said: “They sat on my dashboard for a very long time then disappeared one day. I don’t know whether they’ve been dealt with. I doubt it.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"O’Donnell told the inquiry that, at the end of 2024, he was asked to review thousands of incident…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":544189,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[163,85,46,522,523],"class_list":["post-544188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-health","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/544189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}