{"id":274639,"date":"2025-07-19T11:55:30","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T11:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/274639\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T11:55:30","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T11:55:30","slug":"lampard-mental-health-inquiry-hears-of-lack-of-humanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/274639\/","title":{"rendered":"Lampard mental health inquiry hears of &#8216;lack of humanity&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mr Griffin paid tribute to relatives who had shared their personal experiences saying they had acted with &#8220;confidence, courage and expressions of love&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lynda Costerd, the daughter of Geoff Toms, was one of those giving evidence. She described her father&#8217;s experience on Beech Ward at Rochford Hospital, an older person&#8217;s mental health unit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He died in May 2015 and she says <a href=\"https:\/\/lampardinquiry.org.uk\/hearings\/hearing-day-25-july-hearing\/\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">he was on the ward for less than 6 days, external<\/a>, when he suffered injuries. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He was basically put in a chair, and they would take his walker away from him, so that he couldn&#8217;t get up and move, so much so, they put him in nappies&#8230; even though he wasn&#8217;t incontinent,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ms Costerd believed he was becoming malnourished, and said he was so thin that &#8220;you could see his pacemaker&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She explained how Mr Toms had broken his nose during falls on the ward. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She also said he had two black eyes and bruising to his face and looked like &#8220;he had been mugged&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ms Costerd said her mother told medical staff Mr Toms needed to see a doctor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But she said they replied: &#8220;It doesn&#8217;t work like that. You can&#8217;t just say you want a doctor.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mr Griffin paid tribute to relatives who had shared their personal experiences saying they had acted with &#8220;confidence,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274640,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4317],"tags":[105,218,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-274639","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-mental-health","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114879775276762816","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}