Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (EPUT) is an NHS foundation trust which provides community health, mental health and learning disability services to approximately 1.3 million people throughout Bedfordshire, Essex, Suffolk and Luton.

[5] Later in 2021 it was rated "inadequate" by the Care Quality Commission and stopped from admitting new patients without consent from CQC after inspectors found "serious concerns" in the children and adolescent mental health services.

[11] There is also an inquest into the death of Jayden Booroff who died when he left the Linden Centre in Chelmsford, on 23 October 2020.

[12] In October 2022, Dispatches (TV programme) broadcast a documentary after a year-long investigation which revealed that EPUT was responsible for serious failures resulting in numerous deaths and is still not keeping patients safe.

[13] Within a few days of that programme, the CQC did a flash inspection of EPUT facilities and suspended the entire Trust's CQC Good rating for all its acute wards subsequently downgrading the entire trust, including the acute wards, from Good to Requires Improvement on 12 July 2023.