Valdo Calocane NHS England review: Name those involved in killer’s failing care
BBC News, Nottingham
The families of victims of Nottingham attacks have called on people who were failing to care for Valdo Calocane.
On June 13, 1923, Calocane, who suffered from paranoid schizophrenia, stabbed 19-year-old Barnaby Webber and Grace O’Malley-Kumar and 65-year-old Ian Coates.
An independent review of his NHS treatment and care published Wednesday said it showed that “the system got it wrong” and identified the wrong catalog.
At a press conference in London, families of victims called for greater responsibility to those involved.
The review reviewed the treatment given to Calocane by the Nottinghamshire Healthcare Foundation Trust and the interactions of the NHS with other institutions involved in its care.
The report found many failures, including his risks not being “fully understood, managed, documented or communicated” and identified missed opportunities to take more confident actions on Calocane’s care.
NHS England said it was “obviously the system was wrong” and apologized to the victim’s families on behalf of the NHS and related organizations”.
Similarly, Ifti Majid, CEO of the Nottinghamshire Healthcare Foundation Trust, apologized and said he would accept the report “all”.
But Emma Webber, the mother of Barnaby Webber, said: “There must be a name.”
She added that the professional meaning of being named is not compared to the loss of a family member.
Grace O’Malley-Kumar’s father, Dr. Sanjoy Kumar, said he will write to Health Minister Wes Streeting to order the Mental Health Trust Funding to make individual clinicians “responsible”.
“We demand accountability,” he added.
Since Mrs. Weber called the report a “terror show,” the government has repeated its commitment to the attack investigation and is working on a scope-building effort.
But family lawyer Neil Hudgell said: “We want it to have teeth and be led by a judge.”
Mrs. Weber called on the government to ask for the statutory inquiry and begged ministers to “stop this trauma and stop fighting now.”
“I think it’s time to meet the Prime Minister now,” she added.