Assistant general secretary of the General Federation of Trade Unions HENRY FOWLER reports on day 1 from the GFTU’s residential Summer School at Quorn Grange Hotel
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AT THE end of April an inquest jury ruled that a patient who died after admittance to a privately owned psychiatric hospital near Weston Super Mare had received “gross failures” in her care.
Lily Lucas, a 28-year-old former mental health nurse, collapsed in Cygnet Healthcare’s Kewstoke hospital, and died the next day in Bristol Hospital, where she was taken after her collapse.
Lucas had complex and serious mental health difficulties which led to her death. But the “understaffed” Cygnet ward did not help: Lucas was drinking excessive amounts of water as part of her disturbance, which can be very dangerous.
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