Daniel Collins

PFD Report Historic (No Identified Response) Ref: 2018-0283
Date of Report 14 September 2018
Coroner James Bennett
Response Deadline ✓ from report 9 November 2018
Coroner's Concerns (AI summary)
A mental health service transferred a recently suicidal patient's care, requiring the patient to initiate contact with the new service, without proper handover or follow-up, risking loss of care during a crisis.
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_ One mental health service, FTB crisis team, transferred necessary mental health care to a second service Living Well Consortium (LWC} , putting the responsibility of making contact on the patient (aged 22,and only 72 hours post-attempting to take his own life): The rational was "it is part of their recovery, empowers them and gives them choices" . FTB crisis team did not alert LWC to the transfer and did not follow up with LWC or the patient that contact had been made: There was/is no system in place to require FTB crisis team to notify LWC about the transfer or trigger a follow up with Lwc/the patient: Therefore, patients are at risk of being lost to the mental health service whilst in crisis/only recently out of crisis_
Part of a Series

2 separate reports were issued from this inquest, each sent to different organisations.

  • 2014-0058
    Sent to: Devon and Cornwall PolicePlymouth City Council
    No responses yet

This report (2018-0283) is shown above.

Sent To
  • Birmingham and Solihull Clinical Commissioning Group
  • Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Trust
Response Status
Linked responses 0 of 2
56-Day Deadline 9 Nov 2018
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Source: Courts and Tribunals Judiciary

Report Sections
Investigation and Inquest
On 03/05/2018 commenced an investigation into the death of Daniel Hubert Collins The investigation concluded at the end ofan inquest on 31/08/18. The conclusion of the inquest was Suicide:
Circumstances of the Death
The Deceased had no known mental health issues prior to attempting to take his own life via an overdose on 07/04/18 when he was admitted to Hospital. He reported being concerned about the poor health of relatives, that his relationship with his girlfriend had ended and the pressure of completing his degree He was assessed by RAID nurses on 8 and 9/04/18 and discharged from Hospital on 9/04/18,and because of his young age, was referred to the Forward Thinking Birmingham (FTB) crisis team. An FTB crisis team nurse attended his home on 10/04/18,assessed him, and discharged him from the FTB crisis team to mental health service counselling putting responsibility on the Deceased to make contact with them. There was no follow up from the FTB crisis team generally, or to check that he had contacted the counselling service: On 25/04/18 he attended a meeting requested by his university to discuss concerns about his wellbeing and mental health. On 26/04/18 he went missing and he was found deceased on 28/04/18 in an area of woodland in Moseley Bog having taken a deliberate overdose. Following post mortem the medical cause of death was determined to be:
Action Should Be Taken
In my opinion action should be taken to prevent future deaths and believe you have the power to take such action_

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