Mum Lynda claims she repeatedly asked for Neveah to be transferred from the ward she died on - another to lose their life while in the care of Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust
A devastated family say they were terrified that if their teenage girl remained on a mental health ward, she would die there. Their worst fears were confirmed when, earlier this year, Nevaeh Owen died a few months after being transferred onto an adult ward in the grounds of the Royal Bolton Hospital.
Nevaeh is the latest teenager to die while in the care of GMMH, which is currently rated inadequate by inspectors. The transfer from child and adolescent mental health service to the adult general acute Oak Ward followed her 18th birthday in September 2023. Earlier this year, the inquest of Charlie Millers' ended and a jury determined that a lack of one-to-one, constant nursing care likely 'contributed to his death' and that Greater Manchester Mental Health Trust's observation system, where staff checked on Charlie during his stays on wards, including at the time he was fatally injured, was 'not robust enough' and undertaken 'inconsistently at best'.
A video of Nevaeh on her 18th birthday, on September 25 last year, shows her opening cards with her family while at the Junction 17 unit in Prestwich. She cries with joy and is hugged by her grandmother as she realises her present is a trip to New York. Lynda, aged 37, who has two other children, with her husband, Anthony, 40, said: "Every day while she was on Oak Ward there were incidents. She was being injected - intramuscular medication for acute behavioural disturbance. She was doing ligatures every day."
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