Avon and Wiltshire mental health trust criticised

The culture and leadership of a mental health trust has been seriously criticised in an independent review.

The review of Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust (AWP) was commissioned after concerns were raised about the care of two patients involved in killings in Swindon in 2007.

It concluded that the trust culture was "centralist, top down and target driven, bureaucratic and controlling".

The trust has published a plan - Fit for the Future - to address the issues.

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