Sussex Partnership NHS Trust

PFD Addressee

Reports: 34 Earliest: Aug 2013 Latest: 13 May 2025

100% 2-year response rate (above 83% average). 49% of classified responses show concrete action taken.

Action Taken 49%

Action Planned 41%

Noted 11%

Disputed 0%

Based on 37 classified responses

PFD Reports

34 results

Brian Shillinglaw

Historic (No Identified Response)

2015-0427 6 Nov 2015 Brighton and Hove

Hospital Death (Clinical Procedures and medical management) related deaths

Concerns summary (AI summary) The provided text is incomplete and does not contain specific concerns.

Alice Mead

2015-0239 24 Jun 2015 Brighton and Hove

Concerns summary (AI summary) Significant failings in mental health care involved the absence of a care coordinator, ignored patient requests for medication review, and an unacceptably delayed, "hands off" response to urgent concerns for a vulnerable patient.

Action Taken (AI summary) Sussex Partnership NHS Trust implemented an improved system for reviewing care coordinator caseloads, especially when a care coordinator leaves. Staff in East ATS and MHRRS have undergone Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST), and a new approach to calls is underway in East ATS.

Bruce Longden

2015-0149 21 Apr 2015 Brighton & Hove

Hospital Death (Clinical Procedures and medical management) related deaths

Concerns summary (AI summary) The Sussex Partnership Trust demonstrated a critical lack of awareness regarding its own internal protocols.

1 response from Response Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust

Paul Hyde

Partially Responded

2014-0527 5 Dec 2014 Brighton & Hove

Hospital Death (Clinical Procedures and medical management) related deaths

Concerns summary (AI summary) Concerns arose regarding the effectiveness and timeliness of the mental health referral pathway for a patient with a deteriorating condition, despite anxieties being raised by community mental health workers.

Action Taken (AI summary) The trust recruited an additional administrator to the Triage team. GPs have been allocated named Consultant Psychiatrists and meetings have been arranged. Mr. Hyde's experience has been shared (anonymously) with staff and included in the Trust's Quarterly Quality & Patient Safety Report.

Janet Blackman

Historic (No Identified Response)

2014-0200 29 Apr 2014 West Sussex

Hospital Death (Clinical Procedures and medical management) related deaths

Concerns summary (AI summary) Psychiatric units fail to provide essential physical health care, including DVT prophylaxis, indicating a need for seamless, integrated care delivery for both physical and mental health.

Danuta Corbett

2014-0150 3 Apr 2014 Brighton & Hove

Hospital Death (Clinical Procedures and medical management) related deaths

Concerns summary (AI summary) The hospital's leave policy for informal patients was not followed, and inadequate risk assessment for escorted leave, using an untrained agency worker, resulted in critical safety failures.

Action Taken (AI summary) The consultant psychiatrist now carefully reviews notes taken during ward review. The Trust has reinforced with staff that should extraordinary circumstances arise again, a retrospective note must be completed, and the nurse responsible will ensure proper handovers take place in the future.

Maureen Leaver

Historic (No Identified Response)

2014-0036 27 Feb 2014 West Sussex

Hospital Death (Clinical Procedures and medical management) related deaths

Concerns summary (AI summary) Inadequate medical supervision and ineffective systems for investigating acutely ill elderly patients in a psychiatric ward were identified, alongside a lack of understanding of legal duties for patient transfers.

Ryan Chapman

Historic (No Identified Response)

2014-0048 31 Jan 2014 West Sussex

Hospital Death (Clinical Procedures and medical management) related deaths

Concerns summary (AI summary) Staff lacked understanding of patient leave policies and support worker roles. Delayed risk assessments, insufficient family information, and poor ward security were identified issues.

John Walker

2013-0213 21 Aug 2013 West Sussex

Mental Health related deaths

Concerns summary (AI summary) Insufficient risk care planning, lack of rationale for decreasing observation levels despite deteriorating mental state, and delays in reporting missing patients raised serious safety concerns.

Action Taken (AI summary) The Trust has revised the documents clinicians are asked to complete to ensure they are less repetitive and better support succinct recording of relevant issues and the fences throughout Langley Green Hospital have been altered to make it much more difficult to get over.