Edenfield Unit: ‘Concerns remain’ at trust where patients abused

However there was signs of “cultural improvements” in regard to learning, safety and leadership and inspectors saw staff treating patients with compassion.

GMMH said it was “disappointed” that the CCQ report had taken so long to be published but accepted it was an accurate depiction of the situation at the time.

Salli Midgley, chief nurse at the trust, said: “We will always be sorry for the failings in the past but under the Trust’s new leadership we are focussed on getting the fundamentals of care right every time for our service users, their families and carers.”

Some staff at the Edenfield Centre were sacked after the Panorama investigation was broadcast.

The programme sparked an independent report, led by Prof Oliver Shanley OBE, who found the trust repeatedly missed opportunities to act on concerns and had a culture of “suppressing bad news”.

It said Panorama had exposed the “most shocking abuse and poor care” of vulnerable patients and that concerns raised by families were “not always taken seriously”.