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Mental health units for most mentally unwell children across the country struggle to staff wards, admits official ...
Ruth Szymankiewicz died after she was left unsupervised at a children’s mental health hospital by an inexperienced agency ...
Ruth Szymankiewicz, 14, had been placed under strict one-to-one observation at Huntercombe Hospital in Berkshire.
More than half of a mental health ward's staff were absent on the day a teenager who should have been under constant ...
Ruth Szymankiewicz, 14, was being treated for an eating disorder at Huntercombe Hospital in Berkshire, and should have been kept within eyesight at all times when she died, an inquest heard ...
Ellesha Brannigan told an inquest that her team at Huntercombe Hospital had to bring in staff from another ward so staff ...
A care worker at a children’s mental health hospital broke down in tears during an inquest for a 14-year-old girl held a ...