Mother of woman who died after NHS failings fears more people will come to harm

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The mother of a young woman who died after health and safety failings by an NHS trust has said people will “continue to come to serious, avoidable harm” if “radical changes” are not made.

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00:00Alice Figueredo died at Goodmays Hospital in Redbridge on July 7th 2015 after a failure to

00:11remove plastic items from the communal toilets in the Hepworth ward that had been used in repeated

00:18earlier attempts at self-harm. Jurors heard how she was first admitted to the Hepworth ward in

00:26May of 2012 with a diagnosis including non-specific eating disorder and bipolar affective disorder.

00:35During her time on the acute psychiatric ward, the trust failed to remove plastic items from the

00:43communal toilets or keep them locked, even though she repeatedly used the items to try to kill herself.

00:52She had used plastic from the toilets to self-harm on at least 10 previous occasions.

01:00As a result of all this, jurors last Wednesday found that the North East London NHS Foundation Trust,

01:08the trust which runs this hospital where Miss Figueredo was a patient, was guilty of failing to

01:16ensure the safety of a non-employee. The trust was cleared of corporate manslaughter.

01:22The ward manager, 53-year-old Benjamin Aninakwa of Graze in Essex, was found guilty at the Old Bailey of

01:32failing to take reasonable care for the health and safety of patients on the ward Miss Figueredo was on,

01:40but found not guilty of manslaughter.

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