Lampard Inquiry’s forum ‘a national first’

A mental health public inquiry is believed to be the first of its kind to establish a forum to try to ensure its recommendations are enforced.

The Lampard Inquiry, which is examining more than 2,000 deaths at NHS-run inpatient units in Essex between 2000 and 2023, has established a recommendations and implementation that which will sit after its conclusion.

The forum will “seek the views of others as to how [Baroness Lampard’s] recommendations… may be implemented to ensure meaningful change”, the inquiry said.

“As far as we are aware, the Lampard Inquiry is the first public inquiry ever to have taken such an important innovative and collaborative step,” said Nicholas Griffin KC, chief counsel to the inquiry.