NHS England says the mental health trust that treated the killer who carried out the Nottingham attacks must attend monthly progress meetings to discuss improvements or face losing its licence. Valdo Calocane received a hospital order after admitting the killings of Ian Coates, Grace O’Malley-Kumar and Barnaby Webber on 13 June 2023. He was under Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust’s care from May 2020 to September 2022.
The report says NHS England has “reasonable grounds” to suspect the trust is failing to comply with certain conditions of its licence, including quality of care, leadership and governance, as well as financial performance.
NHS England’s report details “a number of failings” found by a special review into the trust’s services and outlines the steps it must take to improve, with a warning of “further formal action” if any of those steps are not met.
In August, a damning report was released by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), which the victims’ families said “demonstrates gross, systemic failures in the mental health trust”.
The trust is required to take “all reasonable steps” to address concerns raised by CQC reports since 2023 until it was no longer found to be inadequate by inspectors.
It stipulates the trust must continue to submit a monthly, board-approved progress report in relation to these steps, and a separate progress report against 25 recommendations set out by the special review.
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