People with type 1 diabetes and disordered eating need ȷoined-up care, says coroner after woman’s death

A coroner has called on the UK government to act urgently to provide integrated physical and mental healthcare for patients with type 1 diabetes with disordered eating (T1DE), after a teacher with the illness died by suicide.Megan Davison, 27, from Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, took her life in August 2017. An inquest in March 2018 concluded simply that the cause of her death was suicide, but her family were unhappy that the inquest did not investigate her treatment for T1DE and succeeded in getting the verdict quashed and a second inquest ordered.That inquest has concluded that she died by suicide in the context of T1DE. Alison McCormick, assistant coroner for Hertfordshire, wrote in her report, “There is no formal diagnosis for T1DE, no treatment pathway for T1DE, and no complete treatment pathway for diabetic ketoacidosis, an acute clinical emergency associated with T1DE caused by deliberate omission of insulin, which should be seen…
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