Calderdale Crisis team member tells suicidal patient to become martyr and kill themself under royal train.
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Calderdale Crisis team (Assessment Team) member, from South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS trust, whilst assessing a patient as to whether they needed urgent life saving inpatient care, suggested to the distressed suicidal patient in A&E that they kill themselves by walking in front of the royal train. Because of their anti-fascism work. Saying that it would make a good protest, they'd be "a martyr in the anti-fascist cause" and "think of the disruption it would cause."
He then went on to explain the despite 2 suicide attempts, made by this patient in less than 24 hours and other attemps in the weeks before, that they would NOT be considered for short term voluntary stay on the psychiatric ward despite the patients pleas to be admitted.
She was then assessed by another crisis team member of staff who said he agreed with his colleague and she should be discharged even though she had made plans to take her life if she left the hospital. Other team members were deliberately intimidating the patient causing the suicidal patient to become even more distressed and more desperately feeling like ending their life.
It was not until the husband of the ill woman frantically complained to the hospital duty matron, about her treatment and his serious concerns about her life, that the hospital decided at the last minute to call the duty psychiatrist on call, to cover themsleves. The psychiatrist immediately referred the woman to a psychiatric unit an hour away where she was taken in an ambulance, which saved her life.
Usually it is the crisis team (assessment team) who assess all mentally ill patients as to whether they are a risk to themselves or others and if they are admitted to a secure ward, when they arrive at Calderdale Hospital.
Because this patient had questioned their impartiality on a number previous occasions and complained about the service they provide, it seems that they maltreated and bullied her which put her life in serious danger.
This patient was fortunate, that they had the support of a caring family member, who rang the duty matron on call that night. What is very worrying, is what happens to those seriously ill people who do not have any support.
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