Grazyna Walczak
4 Mar 2021 · Coroner Mary Hassell · Inner North London
The coroner's concerns
1. lack of family notification of mental health risk
“Ms [name redacted] was seen by a psychological wellbeing practitioner from the Camden and Islington iCope service two or three days before her death. She was assessed as being at low to moderate risk to herself. However, she was not asked if she would agree to her family being notified of the situation and of her current mental ill health. Her son would dearly like to have been told what was happening and would have acted accordingly. I heard evidence that iCope does not routinely ask their patients if”