Evan Amon DANDOU-DAMBELLE · Prevention of Future Deaths report

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Issued 29 Oct 2025•Inner North London

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This report’s concerns and statements found in recipients’ published responses. Statements are included even where no link to an individual concern is recorded. A link shows an evidence connection; it does not assign responsibility.

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Concerns
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Recipients
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Responses found
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Stated actions
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Concerns and recipient responses

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Concerns raised1

  1. Failure to automatically consider significant medication changes when setting mental-health service contact levels
    Part of recurring concern: Failure to reassess safety risks during significant mental-health medication changes

Stated actions An action is something a recipient says it has done, is doing, or plans to do in response to a concern raised.4

  1. East London NHS Foundation Trust

    Reinforce the guidance through Operational Lead-led shared learning and scheduled service and team business-meeting discussions and review.

  2. East London NHS Foundation Trust

    Ask Clinical Directors in other Trust Directorates to relay the learning about significant medication changes to their consultant bodies.

  3. East London NHS Foundation Trust

    Include significant medication changes as a factor for multidisciplinary consideration in the Tower Hamlets Early Intervention Service RAG guidance.

  4. East London NHS Foundation Trust

    Communicate the learning about significant medication changes to the Tower Hamlets consultant psychiatrist body by email.

Source evidence

How this individual concern was interpreted

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Failure to automatically consider significant medication changes when setting mental-health service contact levels

Wider context from the report

“When Mr Dandou-Dambelle was discussed at an ELFT multi disciplinary meeting on 9 April 2025, his level of contact was changed from red (weekly) to amber (fortnightly). This was the last MDT before his death. This was also the point when the consultant psychiatrist decided to stop his olanzapine that day and commence risperidone, titrating it up gradually. However, the psychiatrist did not suggest that, in deciding the level of contact (red being weekly; amber fortnightly; and green monthly), the medication change was worthy of particular consideration. Even if the consultant had raised the medication change for particular consideration, the team might still have decided to move Mr Dandou-Dambelle to amber, and even if they had kept him on red, it might not have impacted on the outcome. However, in deciding level of contact from the mental health services, it does seem worthy of automatic consideration that the patient’s medication has been altered significantly. ”

Is this part of a recurring concern?

Yes — Failure to reassess safety risks during significant mental-health medication changes.

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How this respondent action was interpreted

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PFD Monitor interpretation

Reinforce the guidance through Operational Lead-led shared learning and scheduled service and team business-meeting discussions and review.

Verbatim wording from the response

“I can also confirm that the guidance for the RAG (red / amber / green) rating system in use in Tower Hamlets Early Intervention Service highlights significant medication changes as a factor for MDT consideration. This will be further reinforced within the team through shared learning led by the Operational Lead for the service. It is due to be discussed at the service business meeting on 6th January 2026 and will also be reviewed at the team business meeting on 7th April 2026.”

Source location

Response from East London NHS Foundation Trust
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Published 31 October 2025

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How this respondent action was interpreted

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PFD Monitor interpretation

Ask Clinical Directors in other Trust Directorates to relay the learning about significant medication changes to their consultant bodies.

Verbatim wording from the response

“Since receiving your Regulation 28 report, this learning has already been communicated by email to the Tower Hamlets consultant psychiatrist body, and Clinical Directors in other Trust Directorates have been asked to relay it to their consultant bodies too.”

Source location

Response from East London NHS Foundation Trust
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Published 31 October 2025

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How this respondent action was interpreted

PFD Monitor created a concise, searchable interpretation from the published response wording shown below.

PFD Monitor interpretation

Include significant medication changes as a factor for multidisciplinary consideration in the Tower Hamlets Early Intervention Service RAG guidance.

Verbatim wording from the response

“I can also confirm that the guidance for the RAG (red / amber / green) rating system in use in Tower Hamlets Early Intervention Service highlights significant medication changes as a factor for MDT consideration. This will be further reinforced within the team through shared learning led by the Operational Lead for the service. It is due to be discussed at the service business meeting on 6th January 2026 and will also be reviewed at the team business meeting on 7th April 2026.”

Source location

Response from East London NHS Foundation Trust
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Published 31 October 2025

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Source evidence

How this respondent action was interpreted

PFD Monitor created a concise, searchable interpretation from the published response wording shown below.

PFD Monitor interpretation

Communicate the learning about significant medication changes to the Tower Hamlets consultant psychiatrist body by email.

Verbatim wording from the response

“Since receiving your Regulation 28 report, this learning has already been communicated by email to the Tower Hamlets consultant psychiatrist body, and Clinical Directors in other Trust Directorates have been asked to relay it to their consultant bodies too.”

Source location

Response from East London NHS Foundation Trust
Page 2 · response
Published 31 October 2025

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