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His death came just hours after Jamie, accompanied by his mother, arrived at Basildon Hospital’s A&E department “seeking help for his deteriorating mental health”. Speaking at an earlier inquest, mum Carolyn Claydon said Jamie’s death has had a “devastating impact”. “We miss him every day, and those of us who were present when he died continue to be traumatised by what happened.
Jamie had first been under the care of EPUT between 2017 and 2020, where he was prescribed anti-psychotic medication and allocated a care coordinator. The coroner highlights that in the “evidence disclosed, in the six months that followed this assessment there were a series of significant and repeated failures”. However, the coroner states that the assessment subsequently undertake “was inadequate and failed to appropriately act”.
Within hours Jamie had taken his own life having fallen a significant height from a window at his home address. “We are continuously working with families, staff and partners to drive the transformation of mental health services so that all patients always receive the high quality and personalised care they rightly deserve.”.
