Scott Taylor
6 Jul 2026 · Coroner James Thompson · Gateshead & South Tyneside
The coroner's concerns
1. limited access to specialist tertiary centres for treatment resistant OCD
“During the course of the inquest I heard evidence giving rise to concern.”
2. inaccessible tertiary OCD services
“The criteria to access these services and the limited capacity they have, it seems prevents clinicians treating patients being able to call upon specialist services that a tertiary centre/s can provide to they patients.”
3. geographic disparity in specialist OCD service availability
“These centres are also not located across the whole of the United Kingdom for ease of access for those patients not residing in the immediate locality of the current centres.”