Special review of mental health services at Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust: Part 2

Following the conviction of Valdo Calocane (VC) in January 2024 for the killings of Ian Coates, Grace O’Malley-Kumar and Barnaby Webber, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care commissioned CQC to carry out a rapid review of Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (NHFT) under section 48 of the Health and Social Care Act 2008.

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In March 2024, we published the first part of our review on the findings of our assessment of patient safety and quality of care provided by NHFT, and progress made at Rampton Hospital since our last inspection in July 2023.

For this part of the review, we were asked to carry out:

A rapid review of the available relevant evidence related to the care of Valdo Calocane, including available evidence made public during the criminal trial, alongside a small number of other cases (to enable benchmarking), to determine whether this evidence indicates wider patient safety concerns or systemic issues with the provision of mental health services in Nottinghamshire. This rapid review is intended to be complementary to the Independent Mental Health Homicide Review which will be conducted by NHS England over a longer timeframe and will provide more detailed scrutiny of Valdo Calocane’s interaction with mental health services.