From The Times and The Sunday Times, this is the story.
I'm Daniel Gordon.
When we entrust our health and that of our loved ones to the care of an NHS hospital,
we're expecting to be taken care of and we're expecting to recover.
In Essex, a barrister in a sharp black suit is making his case.
His notes propped up by a pile of documents.
We expect to recover because mental illness is not a terminal diagnosis.
Even if it carries risks to life, or may have a lifelong impact.
He's not addressing a court.
This is a public inquiry which is investigating over 20 years of mental health care in the county.
Fundamentally,
we do not expect our loved ones to die while undergoing treatment for psychiatric illness.
The Lampard Inquiry begins hearing another section of evidence today.
It's investigating the deaths of over 2,000 people who received that care,
deaths which may have been preventable.
I'm a freelance journalist and while I was investigating this story,
I remember being shocked by those numbers and by the fact that so few people seem to have heard about it.
So over the next two days, I'm going to tell you about this inquiry,
the first of its kind, and what it reveals about the state of our mental health services.
And I'm going to start with one woman.