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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 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
Girl took her own life on ward 'while unsupervised'
A children’s mental health ward was missing at least half its staff on the day a suicidal teenage girl was able to kill ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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Girl died after worker with false identity left her alone in hospital
An inquest into the death of a girl has continued, with a ward leader sharing the protocol's around the patient who died in ...
Girl died after being left alone by support worker, inquest hears
Ruth Szymankiewicz was a patient at Huntercombe Hospital in Berkshire, where she was being treated for an eating disorder.
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 ...