Sally Mays inquest: Nurse who wanted to admit Hull woman, 22, who later killed herself to hospital said mental health crisis team were 'horrible' to them
Sally Mays, who killed herself in 2014 at the age of 22 after she was failed by mental health services when refused a psychiatric bedShe said members of the crisis team had been “horrible” and “incredibly unpleasant” to her and her client.
Ms Elliott said she was just looking for support from a friend and the encounter with the consultant was not a “clinically relevant conversation”.“I hadn’t asked Dr Fofie to do anything.”“It was a conversation about me – my feelings.Dr Fofie told the inquest how Ms Elliott was clearly upset when she approached him in the car park.The consultant told the inquest: “This was a quick conversation in a car park with a colleague who was trying to ventilate.
Dr Fofie was asked by his barrister, George Thomas: “Did nurse Elliott say anything in the car park that afternoon that might have indicated that there may be something amiss with the clinical decision not to admit.”Senior coroner Paul Marks has told the inquest he will be examining whether the conversation amounts to a “further missed opportunity” to prevent Miss Mays’ death.
He told the court that, at the end of the October 2015 inquest he concluded: “The failure to admit her to an inpatient psychiatric bed constitutes neglect and this neglect bears a direct causal relationship to her death later that evening.” Miss Mays’s parents, Andy and Angela Mays, from Hull, have spent years battling for a full investigation into their daughter’s death and their campaign culminated in the High Court ruling in December last year.Bridget Dolan KC, representing Mr and Mrs Mays, told the High Court that after Ms Elliot had discussions with two consultant psychiatrists, details of the car park conversation were not revealed to an internal NHS trust investigation nor the senior coroner.
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