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“Unconscionable” actions and “neglect” led to the death of a patient

6th November 2015


Bridget Dolan represented the parents of Sally Mays at the inquest into her death in October 2015. The Senior Coroner for Hull found that the decision by senior psychiatric nursing staff to refuse Sally a hospital bed when she was in obvious need of admission, was an “unconscionable and quixotic decision” following a “lamentable”, “perfunctory and slipshod assessment” of Sally.

 

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