James Melley
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‘We quit our jobs, sold our home twice and spent 10 years fighting for the truth’- this is the extraordinary tale of sacrifice, love and ingenuity by the parents of Alice Figueiredo. @AlisonHoltBBC
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RT @DdesimoneDaniel: How MI5 piled falsehood on falsehood in the case of a spy who abused women.
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RT @BBCMBuchanan: NEW: A national inquiry is to take place into maternity care in England. The review will look into concerns at up to 10….
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RT @AlisonHoltBBC: Under fire NHS trust records patient ate breakfast three days after he died. @jamesmelley #mentalhealth..
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The Trust has apologised for failings in Alice's and Winbourne's care, and say that they have made improvements. There will be more on @BBCNews.
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During his inquest they found that staff had falsified observation documents. For several says after he died he was reported as being 'well' and 'eating his breakfast'.
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The family of Winbourne Charles found that staff failed to do observations on him when he was known to be suicidal. He took his own life in 2021.
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But the Figueiredo's weren't the only family to discover serious issues with care there after their loved one died.
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Her parents have been fighting for a decade for accountability for her death.
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Last week we reported how @NELFT was found guilty of failings in care after the death of Alice Figueiredo in 2015.
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RT @BBCMBuchanan: "I think she got a black service, not an NHS service,” Lord Adebowale on his mother’s treatment and the racial disparitie….
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RT @BBCMBuchanan: NEW: Police believe a file containing details of hundreds of NHS maternity cases was probably deliberately deleted. Off….
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They were found not guilty of corporate manslaughter and manslaughter by gross negligence respectively.
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The NHS trust that runs the hospital, @NELFT, and the ward manager of the unit Benjamin Aninakwa, have been convicted of health and safety breaches.
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Her family later found out she’d tried to harm herself using plastic bags or bin liners on 18 previous occasions during her admission. The bin liner in the bin she had access to wasn’t removed, despite the risks it posed.
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Alice had died having been able to get access to a plastic bin liner on the ward she was being treated on- where she was meant to be safe.
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Since she died almost ten years ago, her family have been fighting for accountability for what happened to her.
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But she wasn’t just a diagnosis- her family talk about a vibrant, fun and smart young woman. Just before she went into hospital in 2015, she’d been looking forward to going to university.
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She’d struggled with bipolar disorder and an eating disorder since she was a teenager. Sometimes she needed specialist hospital treatment.
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