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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Robyn Vinter and agencies

Coroner criticises NHS trust’s treatment of family of woman who killed herself

Sally Mays was failed by staff ‘neglect’ at Miranda House in Hull, a 2015 inquest ruled.
Sally Mays was failed by staff ‘neglect’ at Miranda House in Hull, a 2015 inquest ruled. Photograph: Hull Daily Mail/MEN Media

An NHS trust has “not covered itself in glory” in its dealings with the family of a vulnerable young woman who killed herself after being refused admission to hospital, a coroner has found.

The three-day hearing looked at evidence withheld from the original inquest into the death of Sally Mays, who killed herself in 2014 after being turned away from a mental health unit.

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