Hospital was ‘severely short-staffed’ on the day the teenager was left alone when she should have had constant care ...

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 ...

The case of a teenager who was unlawfully killed after she was able to self-harm at a mental health hospital is "shocking", a ...

Ruth Szymankiewicz, 14, died after a litany of failings at Huntercombe Hospital, where she should have had constant ...

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 ...

Admitted to a psychiatric care unit for an eating disorder, Ruth Szymankiewicz was allegedly supposed to be under ...

Ruth Szymankiewicz, 14, should have been under constant watch at Huntercombe Hospital in Berkshire when she was left ...

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 ...

Girl died after being left alone by support worker, inquest hears Ruth Szymankiewicz was a patient at Huntercombe Hospital in Berkshire, where she was being treated for an eating disorder. She ...

A teenager left alone at a mental health hospital should have been under constant supervision when she self-harmed and later died, an inquest heard. Ruth Szymankiewicz was being cared for by a ...

Fourteen-year-old Ruth Szymankiewicz was supposed to be safe. She was in a psychiatric intensive care unit, admitted for ...