Suicidal patient, 24, died hours after being discharged from scandal-hit hospital
A suicidal man died hours after being discharged from a scandal-hit hospital which is at the centre of a probe into the care of Nottingham triple killer Valdo Calocane.
Daniel Tucker was released from a mental health ward at Highbury Hospital in Nottingham last year and died shortly afterwards, having taken a toxic substance he had purchased online.
An inquest into his death last week found there were multiple failings by Nottinghamshire Healthcare Foundation Trust in the lead-up to Tucker’s death, with no appropriate care plan or risk assessment in place for him before or after his discharge.
The 10-day hearing heard he had been discharged from the hospital on 22 April, despite having shared suicidal intentions with staff just days before. The jury concluded that failures by staff to ensure an appropriate plan for him contributed to his death.
It comes after health secretary Victoria Atkins ordered the Care Quality Commission to carry out an inquiry into Nottinghamshire Healthcare. The probe will look at the handling of Calocane, who had been discharged from Highbury Hospital and was a patient under the trust’s community crisis services when he stabbed three people to death in a brutal knife rampage.
Source: The Independent, 18 February 2024