An NHS mental health trust has been fined £200 000 for failing to provide safe care and treatment for two patients who took their own lives.
Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust pleaded guilty after a prosecution by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) over the deaths of Christie Harnett and an adult patient anonymised by reporting restrictions as Person X. The trust was fined £140 000 over Christie’s death and £60 000 over X’s suicide and was ordered to pay £15 000 costs and a £170 victim surcharge.
Harnett, aged 17 when she died at Middlesbrough’s West Lane Hospital in June 2019,1had been under the care of community child and adolescent mental health …
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