Witnesses reported seeing Ms Giblen displaying poor mental health and having “delusional beliefs” in the last few weeks of her life
A health board which acted negligently in caring for a mentally ill mum of two who committed suicide has been ordered to pay £250,000 to her family. Judge Lord Arthurson found that Lanarkshire Health Board failed to look after 35-year-old Lynette Giblen who lost her life at her mother’s house in Glasgow on October 10 2016.
It was the fourth time she had been discharged from hospital that year. However, medics allowed her to leave the hospital and her family believed they failed to provide her with proper care in the immediate time following her release. Their beliefs were supported by a London based consultant psychiatrist called Dr Charles Musters who believed that Mrs Giblen’s condition was such that she needed “considerable support” following her release from hospital. He believed that doctors in charge of Mrs Giblen’s care failed to provide measures which gave her sufficient care.
“For the foregoing reasons I accept these advanced propositions in this case, supported as they were by the compelling evidence of Dr Musters against the whole background of the factual and clinical evidence led. On the basis of that substantial body of evidence I am content to hold that there was a significant deterioration in the deceased’s condition with obvious signs of delusional beliefs.
Dr Musters said that he didn’t believe that this level of support was put in place when Mrs Giblen was released from hospital. He considered that the care package given to her upon her release on September 16 was insufficient - the judgement tells of how she was expected to wait for 24 days before her care plan would begin to be implemented.
“The package of care selected at discharge on 16 September 2016 would not, in Dr Musters’ view, have provided the intensive care required by the deceased. The 24 day period that she was expected to wait, and of course remain stable, before any single aspect of her care plan would be implemented, was wildly out of keeping with the timescales over which her own mental health had fluctuated within the preceding period.
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