The Priory fined £300k over death of 14-year-old girl
The Priory healthcare group has been fined £300,000 over the death of a child at one of its hospitals.
The private company, which runs mental health services as part of an NHS contract, was sentenced at Lewes Crown Court.The Health and Safety Executive pursued a criminal investigation and the company admitted to a charge of being an employer failing to discharge its duty to ensure people were not exposed to health and safety risks.
A court hearing in January was told Amy, who was deemed high-risk and had a"known and recent history" of suicide attempts, was admitted to the hospital on 23 August 2012.On November 12, she was found in her bedroom with a ligature around her neck and taken to Conquest Hospital in Hastings, where she died the following day.
She admitted to having"low points where I have not wanted to be alive any more just so that I could be with Amy".
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