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New chairman appointed to under-fire mental health trust | |
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A new chairman is to be appointed at the scandal-hit trust where a teenager drowned in the bath. | |
Regulator NHS Improvement said it intends to appoint Tim Smart as head of Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust. | |
It follows the resignation of former trust chairman Mike Petter after a damning safety report. | It follows the resignation of former trust chairman Mike Petter after a damning safety report. |
Health watchdog the Care Quality Commission (CQC) said on Friday the trust was "continuing to put patients at risk". | Health watchdog the Care Quality Commission (CQC) said on Friday the trust was "continuing to put patients at risk". |
'Dramatic change needed' | |
Patient Connor Sparrowhawk drowned in a bath at a facility in Oxford run by the trust following an epileptic seizure in 2013. | |
An inquest jury found in October neglect contributed to the 18-year-old's death. | |
The CQC found the trust still had not implemented safe bathing guidelines. | |
NHS Improvement chief executive Jim Mackay said: "It is clear that dramatic change is needed urgently at Southern Health. | |
"Our action today in proposing the appointment of Tim Smart - a very experienced NHS leader - at the top of the organisation will speed up this improvement." | |
Mr Petter's departure on Thursday was followed by the resignation of Mark Aspinall, one of 13 public governors for the trust. | |
In his resignation letter, Mr Aspinall said there was an "apparent lack of drive and determination" to improve the situation at the trust. | |
Southern Heatlh was inspected by the CQC after a report by NHS England found it did not investigate the unexpected deaths of more than 1,000 patients over a four-year period. | |
Its chief executive Katrina Percy has refused calls to resign from Mr Sparrowhawk's mother, Dr Sara Ryan. | |
The trust provides mental health services to patients in Buckinghamshire, Dorset, Hampshire, Oxfordshire and Wiltshire. |