The North East London NHS Foundation Trust (NELFT) has been found guilty of serious failings after the tragic suicide of a young patient, Alice Figueiredo, whose case exposed long-standing issues with patient care. Over the past decade, coroners have raised concerns over NELFT's risk assessments and record-keeping, identifying specific incidents of falsified patient records. Although the trust has offered condolences after the trial, the pattern of neglect indicates a deeper systemic problem within the organization, with multiple reports highlighting deficiencies in managing patient risk.
Coroners have repeatedly highlighted issues about the North East London NHS Foundation Trust (NELFT), including about the quality of risk assessments and record-keeping.
In two cases patient notes were found to have been falsified, including one man who was recorded as eating breakfast three days after he had died.
The most common criticism found the assessment of the risk patients posed to themselves was poor or incomplete.
Nearly 30 prevention of future deaths (PFD) reports from coroners have mentioned NELFT, raising the most serious concerns over a decade.
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