Rebecca Overy
PFD Report
Historic (No Identified Response)
Ref: 2014-0535
Coroner's Concerns (AI summary)
An immediate transfer, mandated by law, was detrimental to a young adult's mental health. This highlighted a critical service gap for secure mental health care for 18-24 year olds with complex needs.
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1.That the immediate transfer of Miss the day after her 18'h birthday was not in her best interests_ was detrimental to her mental health and occurred purely due to the operation of s 30 of the Health and Social Care whereby the commissioners were obliged to arrange an immediate transfer, and the clinicians to concur with it, lest they be in breach of the act That there is no provision for secure mental health care for young adults in the age range 18-24, with a clinical picture similar to Rebecca's_ day being Overy Act,
Sent To
- Department of Health and Social Care
Response Status
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56-Day Deadline
11 Feb 2015
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Source: Courts and Tribunals Judiciary
Report Sections
Investigation and Inquest
From 17th to 27th November2014 the death of Rebecca Louise Overy was the subject of an Article 2 Inquest. It was found that Miss Overy had died as a result of hypoxic brain injury as a result of asphyxia whilst in adult secure mental health detention. The jury returned a Narrative Conclusion:
Circumstances of the Death
Miss Overy's fatal injury was self-inflicted, and occurred whist she remained on the adult admission ward. She had been transferred there from Child and Adolescent secure mental health detention the after her 18" birthday, without any prior visit to the adult intuition and without any plan for a gradual transition, given Miss Overy's particular circumstances, despite this proposed by her adolescent responsible clinician_
Action Should Be Taken
In my opinion action should be taken to prevent future deaths and believe your organisation has the power to take such action_
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Data sourced from Courts and Tribunals Judiciary under the Open Government Licence.