Family Handout/PA WireThe case of a teenager who was illegally killed after being capable of self-destructive in a mental health hospital is “shocking”, a government spokesman.
Ruth Szymankiewicz was seen on his first innings by a worker Who let him slip in his bedroom In February 2022 near Medenhead, Berkshire, despite the need for frequent supervision at Hunterkomb Hospital.
The 14-year-old parents opposed her to go to a failed hospital, which was two hours from her home in Salisbury, Wiltshire.
A spokesman for health and social care said, “This is a shocking case and it is clear that the care of Hunterkomb Hospital fell much below the standards that we expect.”
Ruth was left untreated in his bedroom for about 15 minutes, where he was later found unconscious. Two days later, he died at John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford.
Hospital, which was closed since Insufficient rated And then Need to improve In two inspections by Care Quality Commission (CQC) in 2021.
More than half of the employees were absent due to working on the ward of Ruth when the inexperienced agency worker was drafted to monitor him.
On Thursday, a jury found that other factors contributing to Ruth’s death included insufficient staff training and their care was “neither suitable nor favorable” to help her recovery.
Family Handout/PA WireRuth’s father Mark on Thursday said after a jury conclusion that he was illegally killed, “he was” immersed in a highly chaotic environment “.
She said that she was “essentially closed” from her passion of animals and nature, “poorly trained, intelligent and unsafe” at the psychiatric intensive care unit (picu).
Ruth’s mother Kate said that she “shares serious concerns about the rule of Ruth’s care and expands the ongoing governance of other units across the country.”
He said that they “especially question the role of CQC”, given that “despite all warnings, nothing has changed in Hunterkomb” before his daughter’s death.
The government spokesperson said in a statement: “Our deep sympathy is with Ruth’s family and friends.
He said, “Youth with mental health issues are not getting care where they need it,” they said.
“We have instructed NHS to prioritize to increase the availability of mental health beds, and we are investing £ 75M this year to reduce unfairly reduced from the placement of the region so that the patients can get close care of the house.”
A CQC spokesperson said that after Ruth’s death, several inspections of the hospital were conducted and the active care group “increased our monitoring”, which ran it.
Another inspection in which Hospital was found inadequate Followed in December 2022. The active care group later stopped providing children and teenage mental health services (CAHM) there.
The CQC spokesperson said, “Although the site is no longer on, we continue to monitor the safety and quality of services in other places of the provider and in mental health services for children and youth.”
“Everyone is eligible to receive high quality care and where we find that this is not the case we take action, including using our enforcement powers.”
