Patients at risk of suicide and harm over unsafe hospital discharges
Mental health services are failing to keep patients safe from suicide and harm after leaving hospital, the health ombudsman has warned.
It also identified failings around planning and communication when patients are discharged, and has urged the Government to strengthen the Mental Health Act.
The warning comes after the Department for Health and Social Care was forced to announce a Grace O’Malley-Kumar and Barnaby Webber, both 19, and school caretaker Ian Coates, 65, in June last year, by Valdo Calocane
