A coroner has vowed to write to the health secretary because 'things need to happen' following another concerning death at a psychiatric unit run by The Priory Group.
Assistant Coroner Andrew Bridgman spoke out after a jury returned a 'misadventure' verdict over the death of Amina Ismail, 20, who they concluded died of 'ligature strangulation'.
She went into cardiac arrest after her constant, one-on-one observations were reduced to every 15 minutes, the inquest has heard.
Amina, 20, was found collapsed in her room on the Pankhurst Ward, a locked psychiatric intensive care unit (PICU), at the Priory's Cheadle Royal Hospital, Stockport, on September 15 last year.
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