Edenfield Centre: Health minister backs public inquiry over abuse

The mistreatment of patients astatine a intelligence wellness infirmary does warrant a nationalist inquiry, a wellness curate has said.

Will Quince apologised to patients astatine the Edenfield Centre successful Prestwich adjacent Manchester and their families.

A BBC Panorama investigation recovered a "toxic civilization of humiliation, verbal maltreatment and bullying" astatine the hospital.

Hospital bosses said they took contiguous enactment including suspending unit and launching a objective review.

Responding to a question successful the House of Commons from Bury South MP Christian Wakeford, Mr Quince said: "He asks whether I volition apologise to the patients and their families, of people I volition unequivocally bash so.

"It should not person happened and it is our relation arsenic ministers, and successful information each those who enactment wrong the NHS, to bash each we perchance tin to forestall it from happening again.

"He asks for an autarkic inquiry, I judge it does conscionable the threshold to bash so."

Andrew Maloney, lawman main enforcement of Greater Manchester Mental Health (GMMH) NHS Foundation Trust which runs the centre, earlier told Manchester City Council's wellness scrutiny gathering that disciplinary procedures started arsenic soon arsenic it was informed of the allegations with a "significant fig of staff" suspended.

He said elder unit were deployed to the centre, which was closed to caller admissions, and it launched an autarkic objective reappraisal of the centre with the findings expected to beryllium reported to the trust's committee by the extremity of this month, the Local Democracy Reporting Service said.

However, the committee was not satisfied with the response, describing the concern astatine the centre arsenic a "catastrophic disaster".

Labour Councillor Pat Karney said the "failure of elder leadership" merits a nationalist inquiry, saying it was "unimaginable" the issues were not picked up.

Other councillors questioned whether whistleblowers had reported these issues to the spot earlier the investigation.

However, Mr Maloney said helium could not reply questions astir the ongoing probe owed to the delicate quality of the allegations made by the BBC.

Greater Manchester Police's probe into the allegations is besides ongoing.

Labour Councillor Tom Robinson, enforcement subordinate for Healthy Manchester and Adult Social Care, said helium would constitute to the Secretary of State for Health requesting a nationalist enquiry into the allegations.

He said: "I, similar many, watched that documentary and there's a definite constituent that made maine cry.

"We person a work to those patients who are present victims and the courageousness demonstrated by their families to... bash everything we tin successful concern with the Greater Manchester Mental Health Trust."

Speaking connected behalf of the spot astatine the meeting, Mr Maloney said: "We are wholeheartedly committed to bash immoderate it takes to enactment close these wrongs and to preventing them from happening again."

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