Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that (a) NHS England and (b) Berkshire Healthcare NHS Trust respond to Sir Adrian Fulford's prevention of future deaths report following the Forbury Garden terrorist incident in June 2020.

It is the responsibility of the individual organisations named within a Report to Prevent Future Deaths to take action to address any identified failures. Following Sir Adrian Fulford's report, each organisation, including NHS England and the trusts, has written to the Judge Coroner, setting out what action they have taken to address the points he has made.

As a first step, NHS England included a requirement in the National Health Services’ 2024/25 priorities and operational planning guidance that all integrated care boards (ICBs) ‘review their community services by Q2 2024/25 to ensure that they have clear policies and practice in place for patients with serious mental illness, who require intensive community treatment and follow-up but where engagement is a challenge’. Further information on the 2024/25 priorities and operational planning guidance is available at the following link:

https://www.england.nhs.uk/operational-planning-and-contracting/

The outcome of these reviews and local action plans will be presented at the ICBs’ Public Boards, to ensure the outcome of the review is transparent and locally led.