Anna Masson

“received the Trust's Root Cause Analysis Report relating to the treatment of routine referrals by general practitioners which disclosed a recently introduced screening pathway process. The evidence showed that screening potential service users is conducted by relatively junior members of staff and my concern is whether this process is robust enough to identify those who need urgent treatment”

“It was unclear from the evidence given whether the screening pathway applied only to the local community mental health team or across all equivalent teams employed by the Trust”