Read our Privacy noticeA mental health charity that receives £206m a year to care for NHS patients is facing two police probes after the death of a patient and alleged assault of another, The Independent can reveal. In 2020, St Andrew’s Healthcare charity, which runs the hospital, closed children’s wards at the site following a series of safety concerns and critical CQC reports. Northampton Hospital is one of the NHS’s major providers of adult mental health beds and receives patients from across the country. “Due to the nature of the investigations, we remain in contact with the Care Quality Commission, the independent regulator of health and social care. We immediately reported these cases to the police, informed the Care Quality Commission and launched internal investigations.