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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Steven Morris

Gaia Pope: health workers ‘missed opportunity’ before death of Dorset teenager

A specialist epilepsy nurse who treated the Dorset teenager Gaia Pope has told an inquest that the service was under-resourced and admitted that better communication with mental health teams could prevent deaths in the future.

Pope, 19, died of hypothermia after either burrowing into undergrowth on a clifftop or falling into the bushes and may have been experiencing an epileptic seizure or mental health episode at the time.

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