Photos appear to show Essex trust staff sleeping while on duty observing vulnerable patients.
This image was taken the day before a critical CQC report came out highlighting staff sleeping on dutyPhotographs have emerged that appear to show staff at a mental health trust asleep while keeping watch on vulnerable patients.Two of the images were taken on Tuesday, the day before the CQC report came out.The BBC has seen the metadata of the pictures, which confirms the date, time and location as 06:20 BST on 11 July, in a ward run by EPUT.
The date provided was 12 March 2023 - but the BBC has been unable to independently verify this information.A picture purporting to be an EPUT staff member asleep while observing a patient at Southend Hospital has been given to the BBCdetailed 20 incidents in the six months to December last year where the trust had recorded staff members falling asleep while on duty.
A family member of a former patient said: "I walked in to see my loved one on one-to-one observation while the person doing this was asleep.
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