There have been 570 mental health homicides in the past 30 years - in almost every case the perpertrator was known to services, was not taking meds and there were failures of risk assessments, communication, and discharge planning.
Shaun Lintern
Have mental health services gone too far in balancing the rights of the patient against public safety for those with serious mental health illness? As the Nottingham Inquiry concludes its evidence, families affected by homicide speak out:
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Sanjoy Kumar’s daughter Grace was stabbed to death by a paranoid schizophrenic. Now he is fighting to reform the ‘broken’ mental health system
