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
Birmingham review
CSP: Birmingham
Published: June 2023
Year of death: 2012
Extracted: 6 recs
Statutory domestic homicide review under section 9 of the Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004. Source: Home Office DHR Library.
View full report (PDF) ↗
Source: Home Office DHR Library
Summary
The review identified concerns regarding the ability of the victim's family to engage with GPs about the perpetrator's rapidly deteriorating mental health, leading to potentially incomplete information for GPs. There were also issues with timely referral to secondary mental health services, limitations in risk assessment for harm to others, and a lack of clear domestic abuse policies and training within the GP practice.
Extracted recommendations
| # | Recommendation | Addressed to |
|---|---|---|
| BCC Staffcare Recomm | Risk assessment processes, including recording practices be strengthened to ensure that potential risk of harm to others are fully explored and referral for specialist services actioned | Birmingham City Council Staffcare |
| GP Practice Ancillia | Improve the quality and consistency of responses to domestic violence and safeguarding adults from the practice | GP Practice |
| GP Practice Recommen | A more robust referral process and threshold for referral to be agreed with secondary health services to ensure that patients receive prompt initial assessment and appropriate treatment. | GP Practice |
| GP Practice Recommen | Patient records to include full details of incidents and behaviour disclosed when a patient has indicated or been assessed as posing a risk of harm to self or to others. | GP Practice |
| Recommendation | Birmingham Community Safety Partnership requires all recommendations contained in agencies IMRs be fully implemented. In addition agencies are required to confirm that action has been taken where management or practice has fallen below expected standards of professional behaviour. | GP Practice | Birmingham City Council Staffcare |
| Recommendation 1 | NHS England Birmingham, Solihull and Black Country Area Team to work with key stakeholders (including Health Education England and local Clinical Commissioning Groups) to ensure that all frontline health professionals have access to good quality healthcare information about mental health and psychological interventions that will assist them to better support patients and their families and signpost them to the relevant, available support where appropriate. | NHS England Birmingham, Solihull and Black Country Area Team |
| Recommendations extracted from the published report. Source: Home Office DHR Library. View full report ↗ | ||