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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Health
Tara Cobham

‘NHS mental health services failed my inspiring daughter – I don’t want other patients to suffer the same fate’

A mother whose daughter was found to have been neglected by a hospital before taking her own life has blamed the “failures of the system” for her daughter’s death and has demanded improved care for future patients.

Court documents show Iona Imogen Lee’s suicide is one of at least five deaths that failures at Derbyshire’s mental health units caused or contributed to in the past decade. The health and social care regulator is currently reviewing information over three deaths at the units.

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