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New Southern Health chairman proposed New chairman appointed to under-fire mental health trust
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The NHS's regulatory body is to appoint a new chairman of scandal-hit Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust. A new chairman is to be appointed at the scandal-hit trust where a teenager drowned in the bath.
NHS Improvement says it intends to appoint Tim Smart as head of the mental health trust. 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".
Issues at the trust came to light when an 18-year-old man drowned in a bath at a facility in Oxford following an epileptic seizure in 2013. '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.