Teesside trust is fined {pound}200 000 over failures in care of two patients who died by suicide

An NHS mental health trust has been fined £200 000 for failing to provide safe care and treatment for two patients who took their own lives.Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust pleaded guilty after a prosecution by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) over the deaths of Christie Harnett and an adult patient anonymised by reporting restrictions as Person X. The trust was fined £140 000 over Christie’s death and £60 000 over X’s suicide and was ordered to pay £15 000 costs and a £170 victim surcharge.Harnett, aged 17 when she died at Middlesbrough’s West Lane Hospital in June 2019,1 had been under the care of community child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) for two years. The trust was aware that she had previously made two attempts to take her life in an almost identical way in the months leading up to her death.In January 2019 33…
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