Valdo Calocane: Report on Nottingham killer identifies catalogue of care failings

A series of errors, omissions, and misjudgments at Nottinghamshire Healthcare Foundation NHS Trust meant that Valdo Calocane’s mental illness was poorly managed and opportunities to mitigate the risk he posed to the public were missed, a rapid review has concluded.1The Care Quality Commission’s review calls on NHS England to produce, within a year, national standards for care of people with complex psychosis and paranoid schizophrenia and for strengthened guidance relating to medicines management in community settings.In June 2023 Calocane killed Grace O’Malley-Kumar and Barnaby Webber, both aged 19, with a knife as they returned from a night out in Nottingham. He then stabbed to death Ian Coates, 65, who was on his way to work as a caretaker, before stealing his van and crashing into three other people, inflicting serious injuries.Calocane, 32, was convicted in January 2024, and former health and social care secretary Victoria Atkins commissioned the CQC to…
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