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Nadine Gillian THURMAN · Prevention of Future Deaths report

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Issued 3 Jul 2014•Black Country

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Concerns
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Recipients
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Responses found
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Concerns and recipient responses

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Concerns raised2

  1. Failure to use a neutral approach to family involvement in psychiatric assessments
    Part of recurring concern: Failure to involve families and carers in mental health care planning and decisions
  2. Crisis team refusal to allow relatives to be present during assessment
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Failure to use a neutral approach to family involvement in psychiatric assessments

Wider context from the report

“My concerns relate to the psychiatric assessment of Mrs. Thurman. ████████ gave evidence to me that he was not allowed to contribute to the assessment. I was told that Mrs. Thurman was asked by a nurse if she was content to be seen on her own. That seems to me to be an approach that is suggestive of the answer and is likely to exclude relevant information. It seems to me that the approach to someone being assessed should be along the lines “Are you happy for your family to be involved in and make a contribution to the assessment”. I was also told by a hospital nurse that on contacting the crisis team to ask if a relative could be present, the crisis team always refuse. ”

Is this part of a recurring concern?

Yes — Failure to involve families and carers in mental health care planning and decisions.

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How this individual concern was interpreted

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Crisis team refusal to allow relatives to be present during assessment

Wider context from the report

“My concerns relate to the psychiatric assessment of Mrs. Thurman. ████████ gave evidence to me that he was not allowed to contribute to the assessment. I was told that Mrs. Thurman was asked by a nurse if she was content to be seen on her own. That seems to me to be an approach that is suggestive of the answer and is likely to exclude relevant information. It seems to me that the approach to someone being assessed should be along the lines “Are you happy for your family to be involved in and make a contribution to the assessment”. I was also told by a hospital nurse that on contacting the crisis team to ask if a relative could be present, the crisis team always refuse. ”

Is this part of a recurring concern?

No recurring-concern membership is currently published.

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