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Suicidal teen warned mental health hospital staff ‘slept on shifts’ and urged ‘shut this place down’
Huntercombe ... is the s***test mental health institution,’ 14-year-old Ruth Szymankiewicz warned before her tragic death ...
Hospital ward ‘missing half its staff’ when girl, 14, was able to kill herself
Ruth Szymankiewicz, 14, had been placed under strict one-to-one observation at Huntercombe Hospital in Berkshire.
Girl dies after hospital worker with false ID leaves her alone and then flees to Ghana
The worker had obtained the job using a false name and then told horrified colleagues he had left the vulnerable patient on ...
Mental health ward ‘severely short-staffed’ on day suicidal teenager self-harmed, inquest told
A mental health hospital was “severely short-staffed” and missing “at least half” their workers on the day a vulnerable ...
Girl died after hospital's staff failure, jury told
The 14-year-old, from Salisbury, was unaccompanied for about 15 minutes and left alone to walk around the hospital and to her ...
Care worker who left suicidal teenager alone had fake ID and fled UK after she died, inquest told
Ruth Szymankiewiczat died after she was left alone at Huntercombe Hospital despite requiring constant one-to-one observation, ...
Girl, 14, died at hospital after she was ‘left alone by mental health worker with fake ID who later fled UK’
A TEENAGE girl, 14, died in hospital after she was left alone by a worker who had a fake ID and later fled the UK, an inquest ...
Suicidal teen died after care worker using false identity left her unsupervised - before fleeing country
A care worker employed under a false name fled the UK after failing to properly watch over a teenage girl at a children's ...
Staff 'literally sleep on their shifts', wrote girl who died while receiving psychiatric care
A 14-year-old girl who died while she was a patient on a psychiatric unit wrote a letter before she died saying "staff ...
Ward understaffed when teenager left alone - inquest
More than half of a mental health ward's staff were absent on the day a teenager who should have been under constant ...
Hospital worker tears up as she recalls death of girl, 14, left alone on ward
Ruth Szymankiewicz died after she was left unsupervised at a children’s mental health hospital by an inexperienced agency ...
Girl, 14, died at hospital when ‘left alone by mental health worker with fake ID’
Ruth Szymankiewicz, 14, was being treated for an eating disorder at Huntercombe Hospital in Berkshire, and should have been ...