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£170,000 for Mental Health Failings Resulting in Death of Beloved Husband and Father

£170,000 for Mental Health Failings Resulting in Death of Beloved Husband and Father

29th April 2020 – Our client, Mrs W, from the Medway towns, has just concluded a long legal battle, successfully, against the Kent & Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust, arising from the death of her husband back in March 2015.
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BBC News – Prospect Park Hospital ‘system breach may have caused death’

BBC News – Prospect Park Hospital ‘system breach may have caused death’

Expert evidence is needed to establish if a “systems breach” by a mental health trust contributed to the death of a woman, a coroner heard.Continue reading this article

Peter Franklin’s Case Featured on BBC South East News

Peter Franklin’s Case Featured on BBC South East News

There has been a great deal of media interest in the tragic case of Peter Franklin who took his own life in August 2013 having failed to access help from the local Mental Health Trust and at Maidstone Hospital A&E Department numerous times on the day of his death.Continue reading this article

Sunday People – NHS turned away dad 7 times on day he took his own life

Sunday People – NHS turned away dad 7 times on day he took his own life

A deeply depressed ­pensioner killed himself after being turned away by NHS medics SEVEN TIMES that day.Continue reading this article

Peter Franklin’s Case Settles for an Undisclosed Sum

Peter Franklin’s Case Settles for an Undisclosed Sum

Peter Franklin, aged 67, died on 19th August 2013, when he took his own life by jumping from a motorway bridge on the M20, close to Maidstone Hospital.Continue reading this article

Sunday Times – Pay out for Widow of Depressed Man ‘Fobbed off’ Five Times by NHS.

Sunday Times – Pay out for Widow of Depressed Man ‘Fobbed off’ Five Times by NHS.

Article by James Gillespie Published: 13.08.2017

A mentally ill man killed himself by jumping from a motorway bridge after he was sent home from an A&E department five times on the day he died.Continue reading this article

Mandy Park features on Meridian’s Mental Health Awareness Week coverage

Mandy Park features on Meridian’s Mental Health Awareness Week coverage

The second week in May is National Mental Health Awareness Week, with Meridian Television broadcasting mental health focused features on its evening news bulletin each day this week.Continue reading this article

Sunday Mirror – Mentally ill young woman killed herself hours after NHS staff called her a ‘f**king waste of space’

Sunday Mirror – Mentally ill young woman killed herself hours after NHS staff called her a ‘f**king waste of space’

Mandy Park, the mother of 20-year-old Hannah Groves, is now set to receive a £260,000 payout after her daughter Hannah Groves was found hangedContinue reading this article

Mandy Park’s Case against Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust Settles for £260,000

Mandy Park’s Case against Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust Settles for £260,000

We have previously reported on the tragic case of Hannah Groves who died on 22nd October 2012 when she took her own life due to serious failings in care by Southern Health Trust.Continue reading this article

Sunday Times – NHS pay-out after children see father kill their Mother

Sunday Times – NHS pay-out after children see father kill their Mother

Article by James Gillespie Published: 06.03.16

Three children have been awarded substantial damages after the killing of their mother by their mentally ill father, who had been turned away from hospital by a nurse and told to go home and “tidy” up. The youngest child, who was three at the time, witnessed her mother being stabbed. The eldest boy tried to save her.Continue reading this article

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