Matty Sheldrick, a 29 year old autistic person, died on 22 November 2022 after ligaturing outside the Royal Sussex County Hospital 17 days earlier. They had left A&E less than two hours before. Now an inquest has found that a number of issues contributed to Matty’s death - very sad and avoidable

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Hard watching this on BBC news. Would an increase in the availability of learning disability nurses reduce the amount of times tragic stories are hitting the news? How many times do we need to see the same abuse before we seriously consider the skills in the workforce www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...