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Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford (Con)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 13 November 2025

Debate

Goodmayes Hospital Mental Health Facility

Contribution

My Lords, I am sure the whole House will join in sending condolences. I am pleased that the Minister identified improving the performance at the CQC as an important step in preventing these tragedies from happening in the first place. She will know that Penny Dash reviewed the performance of the CQC and made a number of recommendations particularly relevant to mental health providers. Some progress has been made against that, including establishing a chief inspector for mental health, but there are still steps that need to be taken. The single assessment framework is at the moment still too input heavy and inadequately addresses outcomes in mental health. There are still expertise gaps and recruitment is challenging, and there are backlogs in risk, with persistent delays in reinspections for high-risk mental units. Can the Minister say, given today’s outcome and discussion, what steps she will take to address these very serious issues?

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