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Independent investigation: Colin Johnson, Sunderland (2004)

North East and Yorkshire Incident 17 Jan 2004 Subject Colin Johnson

Paranoid schizophrenic kills former school friend with an axe.. long history of increasing MH problems. Family asked MH for help 83 times before incident.

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Acceptance status

Per recommendation
No Response Published
2
Total recommendations
2
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Independent investigation report. Recommendations and any published response are extracted below.

Recommendations

2 total
1 North East Strategic Health Authority; South of Tyne & Wearside Mental Health NHS Trust No Response Published
Recommendation
The panel recommends that the SHA should require the Trust to establish a service improvement team, with appropriate external representation, to bring about a fundamental change of attitude in the Sunderland area, to modernise mental health services in line with … Read more
2 All forensic mental health services; Local secondary care mental health services; General Practitioners No Response Published
Recommendation
The panel recommends that when the care of patients is transferred from forensic services to local secondary care mental health services, a transfer summary should accompany them and be copied to the GP. The summary should detail the outcome of … Read more