One third of NHS psychosis services of the type which treated Nottingham triple killer Valdo Calocane are not meeting national standards, The Independent can reveal. On Tuesday, a damning report by the Care Quality Commission exposed failures by Nottinghamshire Healthcare Foundation Trust to deal with the risks Valdo Calocane presented before he killed three people. Health minister Wes Streeting said Barnaby Webber, Grace O’Malley-Kumar and Ian Coates “might still be alive” today if “the NHS had been there when it should have been”.
He added the deaths at the hands of killer Valdo Calocane in June last year “could have been prevented and should have been prevented”. He also said the Prime Minister is “actively considering” how best to set up a judge-led inquiry into the case. The families of Calocane’s victims have said the CQC report “demonstrates gross, systematic failures” and also accused services caring for him in the lead-up to the attacks as having “blood on their hands”.
Mr Streeting said he “totally understands” the accusation. “The hard truth here – which is, I think, hard for the whole country to hear, let alone me – is that had the NHS done its job, had there not been multiple fundamental failures, three innocent people might still be alive,” he added. “That’s why I totally understand why they’ve accused the NHS of having blood on its hands.
” According to reports on Tuesday by BBC Panorama, Calocane was under the car.