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Concerns and recipient responses

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  1. Avon

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    Mr. Rohan Fitzsimons · Prevention of Future Deaths report

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    Report summary

    Mr. Rohan Fitzsimons, who had been detained under the Mental Health Act and was receiving inpatient psychiatric care, died after jumping from Clifton Suspension Bridge while on unescorted leave on 25 November 2015. The principal concern was that a necessary Mental Health Act Assessment was delayed for four days because no inpatient bed was available, with evidence that this commonly occurred and that assessments were not carried out until a bed became available.

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    Source evidence

    How this individual concern was interpreted

    PFD Monitor created a concise, searchable interpretation from the report wording shown below. The report was sent to Father of the deceased; that does not assign responsibility.

    PFD Monitor interpretation

    Insufficient availability of in-patient mental health beds when detention is required following a Mental Health Act Assessment

    Wider context from the report

    “(1) The Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust (AWP) told the Inquest that the provision of in-patient beds is subject to the funding provided by the Bristol Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG). (2) The Inquest heard evidence that no Mental Health Act Assessment was carried out on the Deceased when it was determined to be necessary because no bed was available and that this was a situation which commonly occurred. (3) In the case of the Deceased the assessment was not performed until four days after it was deemed necessary and was only carried out once a bed was available. Whilst the Inquest did not hear evidence to indicate that the delay in carrying out the Mental Health Act Assessment contributed to the Deceased taking his own life it must follow that in some circumstances such a delay could lead to an individual taking their own life before the assessment was performed and a bed was made available. (4) The CCG should review urgently its commissioning of in-patient mental health beds so as to ensure, in so far as reasonably practicable, that a bed is available when a person who satisfies the criteria for a Mental Health Act Assessment needs to be detained following that assessment. The CCG should work with AWP in carrying out this review and determine what action can and should be taken when a person who satisfies the criteria for a Mental Health Act Assessment needs to be detained following that assessment but no bed is available. If a person meets the criteria for a Mental Health Act Assessment such an assessment should be carried out promptly and not be delayed for an indeterminate period owing to a lack of beds. ”
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    Source evidence

    How this individual concern was interpreted

    PFD Monitor created a concise, searchable interpretation from the report wording shown below. The report was sent to Father of the deceased; that does not assign responsibility.

    PFD Monitor interpretation

    Failure to carry out required Mental Health Act Assessments promptly when a bed is unavailable

    Wider context from the report

    “(1) The Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust (AWP) told the Inquest that the provision of in-patient beds is subject to the funding provided by the Bristol Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG). (2) The Inquest heard evidence that no Mental Health Act Assessment was carried out on the Deceased when it was determined to be necessary because no bed was available and that this was a situation which commonly occurred. (3) In the case of the Deceased the assessment was not performed until four days after it was deemed necessary and was only carried out once a bed was available. Whilst the Inquest did not hear evidence to indicate that the delay in carrying out the Mental Health Act Assessment contributed to the Deceased taking his own life it must follow that in some circumstances such a delay could lead to an individual taking their own life before the assessment was performed and a bed was made available. (4) The CCG should review urgently its commissioning of in-patient mental health beds so as to ensure, in so far as reasonably practicable, that a bed is available when a person who satisfies the criteria for a Mental Health Act Assessment needs to be detained following that assessment. The CCG should work with AWP in carrying out this review and determine what action can and should be taken when a person who satisfies the criteria for a Mental Health Act Assessment needs to be detained following that assessment but no bed is available. If a person meets the criteria for a Mental Health Act Assessment such an assessment should be carried out promptly and not be delayed for an indeterminate period owing to a lack of beds. ”
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