Company boss died after NHS neglect, coroner says

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[BenLurkin]

A psychiatric patient was frightened into taking his own life when a nurse suggested he might be detained against his will, a coroner has said.

Jonny Doughty, 42, was found fatally injured at his home in Fair Oak, Hampshire, in August 2024.

The company boss should have been given a hospital bed by Southern Health NHS Trust, coroner Nicholas Walker said.

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Trust, which has taken over from Southern Health, said it fully accepted the coroner's findings and had made improvements.

Doughty's widow said "Before he got ill, Jonny was the most wonderful person.

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The air conditioning firm boss suffered a decline in his mental health in 2024, the inquest heard.

However, Southern Health failed to arrange a prompt outpatient appointment and left him at home because of a lack of hospital beds, the coroner said.

On 24 August, a nurse breached a plan not to tell Doughty of his likely detention under the Mental Health Act.

[neverevergiveup]

From my interactions with the NHS and their administrators my opinion is that the NHS is like any other bureaucracy - run generally by people who think they are ‘upper echelon’ in society because they have an official government job with a title.

There are some very good docs, and some not so good docs, but the ones who have a good reputation often do the minimum to fulfill requirements to participate in the NHS, and then spend the rest of their time making a ton of money doing private fee for service for those who have money and don’t want to deal with the system.

The administrators appear to me to be full of themselves, and connected - not the people you’d want administrating how you receive health care.