Woman who died after being on locked psychiatric unit for 13 months was not on constant observations when she was found 'unresponsive', inquest hears

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A young woman who died in a locked psychiatric unit she had been detained on for 13 months was not on constant observations when she was found 'unresponsive' in her bedroom, an inquest has heard.

Amina Ismail, 20, had been an inpatient on a Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) at the Priory Cheadle Hulme for over a year when staff found her fatally injured on September 15, 2023.

Emergency services attended the scene and attempted resuscitation, but she was pronounced dead shortly afterwards. Amina, who was originally from Birmingham and had been known to mental health services since the age of 15, had been detained as an out-of-area patient in the privately-owned Priory Group hospital under the Mental Health Act since August of 2022. READ MORE He was 'like a ghost'...

then he went to a Man City game At the third day of the inquest at South Manchester Coroner's Court, the jury heard how an assessment into Amina's needs and care at the beginning of 2023 had identified the suggestion that a specialist rehabilitation unit for complex personality disorders could have been more suitable to her than the PICU she had been detained in.