A PUBLIC inquiry should be held into a North-East mental health trust, according to families and campaigners who believe it needs to answer for as many as 20 patient deaths. Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust is already subject to a series of independent investigations commissioned by NHS England. They will look into failings at West Lane Hospital, in Middlesbrough, and the deaths of 17-year-old patients Christie Harnett and Nadia Sharif in 2019 and Emily Moore, 18, who died at Lanchester Road Hospital, near Durham, last February. The West Lane mental health facility for children and adolescents was shut down by the Care Quality Commission in August 2019, after inspectors rated it ‘inadequate’, but is due to partially reopen under new management in April.