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A 14-YEAR-OLD girl who died in hospital after she was left alone by a worker with a fake ID was “unlawfully killed”, a ...
When Ruth Szymankiewicz’s family placed her in the care of Huntercombe Hospital they thought she would be safe. Months later, she was dead, as health correspondent Rebecca Thomas reports ...
Hospital was ‘severely short-staffed’ on the day the teenager was left alone when she should have had constant care ...
Admitted to a psychiatric care unit for an eating disorder, Ruth Szymankiewicz was allegedly supposed to be under ...
The death of a teenage girl in Oxford, who was left alone at a Maidenhead children’s mental health ward has been ruled as an unlawful killing ...
Ruth Szymankiewicz, 14, should have been under constant watch at Huntercombe Hospital in Berkshire when she was left ...
Mental health units for most mentally unwell children across the country struggle to staff wards, admits official ...
Ruth Szymankiewicz, 14, had been placed under strict one-to-one observation at Huntercombe Hospital in Berkshire.
The worker had obtained the job using a false name and then told horrified colleagues he had left the vulnerable patient on ...
It was there that she was found unconscious shortly afterwards. She died at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford two days ...
Ellesha Brannigan told an inquest that her team at Huntercombe Hospital had to bring in staff from another ward so staff ...
Huntercombe Hospital Maidenhead, in Berkshire, cares for children between the ages of 12 and 18.