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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 ...
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 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.
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 teenager fatally self-harmed, an inquest has heard.
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 ...
Girl, 14, died at psychiatric hospital after 'worker' with false ID left her alone - then fled the UK, inquest hears
Ruth Szymankiewicz, from Salisbury, Wiltshire, had an eating disorder and was a patient at Huntercombe Hospital in Maidenhead ...
Care worker who left suicidal teenager alone had fake ID and fled UK after she died, inquest told
Ruth Szymankiewicz, 14, died after she was left alone at Huntercombe Hospital despite requiring constant one-to-one ...
Suicidal teen died after care worker using false identity left her unsupervised - before fleeing country
Ruth Szymankiewicz suffered from an eating disorder and had been placed under strict one-to-one supervision following a ...
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 ...
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 'punished not helped' at hospital - inquest
Mark Szymankiewicz said his daughter Ruth was "punished not helped or supported" while at Huntercombe Hospital, near ...
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 ...