About this page. This page summarises a Domestic Homicide Review published in the Home Office DHR Library. The full report is available at the source link below. Victim and perpetrator names are not included in extracted summaries on this page.
Source · Domestic Homicide Review
New Forest review
CSP: New ForestPublished: May 2023Extracted: 4 recs
Statutory domestic homicide review under section 9 of the Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004. Source: Home Office DHR Library.
The review identified missed opportunities by General Practices and hospitals to identify and respond to the victim's domestic abuse and mental health needs. Concerns include GPs inappropriately discussing relationships with both partners present, failing to flag frequent attenders, and hospitals not proactively following up on domestic abuse disclosures or suicide attempts.
Home Office classifications
20 tags
Source-supplied classifications used by the Home Office to catalogue this review.
Victim - alcohol misuse
Victim - housing issues
Victim - mental ill health
Victim - anxiety
Victim - depression
Victim - suicide attempts
Victim - serious or life limiting illness
Victim - had been a victim of an abuser before
Perpetrator - case heard in court
Perpetrator - issued life sentence
Perpetrator - supervised by probation services
DHR process - family contributed to dhr
DHR process - family received draft report
DHR process - social services recommendations
DHR process - health services recommendations
DHR process - identification of risk recommendation themes
DHR process - training recommendation themes
DHR process - policy recommendation themes
DHR process - multi agency working recommendation themes
DHR process - awareness raising recommendation themes
Extracted recommendations
4 recommendations pulled from the report · 2 matched to organisations in the index
Addressed to
General Practices | West Hampshire Clinical Commissioning Group | NHS England
The General Practices referred to in this Review, with the support of the CCG and NHS England where appropriate, to ensure that frequent attenders are identified and flagged, and develop of a set of options to be considered when a frequent attender is identified. Options could include the patient seeing the same GP whenever possible, and regular reviews of all the patient’s presenting issues.
Addressed to
Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust | University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust | Hampshire Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust to develop and implement an effective domestic abuse policy, that covers all hospital departments, is supported by training and ensures staff are aware of the need to check victims’ safety when disclosures are made, regardless of their relationship to the perpetrator. University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust and Hampshire Hospital NHS Foundation Trust to report to the Community Safety Partnership on the effectiveness of their domestic abuse policies, procedures and training.
Children’s Social Care to ensure that their website pages provide information about support services for those dealing with the aftermath of allegations of abuse.
The Local Safeguarding Children’s Board to set out and implement actions to ensure that all agencies in contact with victims/survivors of abuse offer them support regardless of whether they are exhibiting obvious signs of distress; this includes multi-agency action plans made when a case does not meet the Children’s Social Care threshold and is therefore closed.