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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Matthew Weaver

Doctor demands overhaul of NHS psychiatric care after brother’s death

Dr Katie Sidle
Dr Katie Sidle: ‘Allowing patients to make bad choices and not take medication is doing an immense amount of harm.’ Photograph: Jill Mead/The Guardian

A consultant neurologist whose brother died after a series of failures by an NHS mental health trust has warned that there will be more avoidable deaths without fundamental reform of psychiatric care.

Dr Katie Sidle’s concerns about the refusal of Norfolk and Suffolk foundation trust (NSFT) to give her brother Christopher, who was psychotic, a crisis admission were repeatedly ignored in the days and weeks before his death last July, a coroner found this month.

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