Families tell of patients being released too early despite the safety risks - while staff have been photographed asleep in their chairs across parts of the hospital.
When Annie got the call on a Friday afternoon in March this year, she was on her way to pick up her daughter from school.unit Wotton Lawn in Gloucester, where he had been sectioned in the psychiatric intensive care unit.Annie told them she was recording the call, and pleaded to keep him in, warning that this course of action would be potentially fatal for her son.But for several days leading up to this moment the hospital had warned his mother it was time for him to leave.
"He smashed his skull, his face, had a brain haemorrhage, smashed his arms and legs and punctured his spleen."That evening Wotton Lawn staff members left some of John's belongings outside for Annie to collect.In the weeks leading up to this moment, Annie had already been talking to Sky News because she felt her son was not getting proper treatment or care at Wotton Lawn.
In that period, we collected the stories of several other families and patients who had recently been in the hospital and their experiences echoed Annie's.Staff gave tablets to patient despite overdose riskHer husband John says he had no contact with the hospital while she was in their care. She swallowed the pills, just outside the hospital, and her husband collected her and took her to A&E.Staff photographed asleep in their chairs
"I was hearing voices and I should have been in a safe place, where I can't get out and there are no roofs I could jump off.He says he was mostly looked after by inexperienced agency or 'bank' staff and was isolated from his family. Even when on the hospital's most secure psychiatric ward for the most at-risk patients, Nicky says she was able to access the roof through a window, and on one occasion attempted suicide.
She says she has spent months examining inquests which have shown failures at Wotton Lawn and other hospitals and the lessons are not being learned.
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