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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Dave Higgens

‘My daughter, 12, took her own life after NHS failed to spot brain condition’

Chloe Hayes with her daughter Mia Lucas who died in Becton Centre, under Sheffield Children’s NHS Foundation Trust, where she had been detained under the Mental Health Act - (Hudgell Solicitors/PA)

The mother of a 12-year-old girl who took her own life after being sectioned has vowed that she will “never forgive” the doctors she blames for failing to diagnose an underlying brain disorder.

Chloe Hayes criticised a “failure to provide appropriate care to her in her time of need” after an inquest jury concluded that inadequate testing at Nottingham’s Queen’s Medical Centre (QMC) had “possibly contributed” to the death of her “beautiful little girl”, Mia Lucas.

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