Condolences have been questioned in a landmark investigation to bereaved families, “crisis and terrible delays”.

Lampard Inquiry is investigating the deaths of more than 2,000 mental health patients under NHS care in Essex between 2000 and 2023.

Fiona Murphy Casey told the hearing “institutional defensions” by health providers that they were obstructing the inquiry and preventing families from closing.

The Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (EPUT) has apologized to the affected people.

Public investigation is England’s first mental health death with evidence recited in London after previous seasons in September and November.

Ms. Murphy explained the “horrific” experiences, which the families represented during the interrogation of their loved ones.

He said that there was an “extraordinary and shocking number” in the in -presenture units in Essex.

“Families have experienced … The death of loved ones is falling under the radar and harassing and many times full,” he said.

Barrister intentionally accused the Employment of disrupting the inquiry proceedings.

This included “unfairly dispute”, which failed to provide the relevance, evidence of an inquiry and failed to delay its disclosure.

Ms. Murphy said: “It is also an embarrassing wrong that the lesson has been learned when they do not.

“These defensive behavior causes real disadvantages.

“They cause retramatiation of grieving families, they interrupt the truth, they hindered learning lessons and they act as a fundamental bar and a barrier to change.”

An inquiry is a legal investigation of a death that appears to be due to unknown, violent or unnatural causes.

Koroners can interrogate a Article 2 when the person died while they were under state care.

Ms. Murphy said that she had the ability to give “real meaning” for families, as well as changes.

However, he claimed that “systematic collapse of acceptable service distribution in Essex was” weakening “this ability.

Paul Scott, Chief Executive Officer of the Apoot, has apologized for deaths under his trust.

He said: “As the inquiry increases, there will be many people who loved and remembered in the last 24 years and I want to say how sorry I am for their loss.”

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