Tania Jarman
12 Mar 2026 · Coroner Elizabeth Wheeler · Cheshire
This report repeats 2 earlier warnings. See the linked reports.
The coroner's concerns
1. fewer mental health beds than patients needing them
“There is a long standing and well publicised concern that there are fewer mental health beds than patients who are assessed as needing these. I draw your attention to the fact that this situation is ongoing and continues to pose a risk to life.”
Linked reports
Identical hazardConfidence 0.90 · high
Earlier report
“Had an informal Mental Health bed been available on the 6th June 2023, and [the deceased] had been admitted as both she and her psychiatrist had wished, her death would not have occurred.”
This report
“There is a long standing and well publicised concern that there are fewer mental health beds than patients who are assessed as needing these. I draw your attention to the fact that this situation is ongoing and continues to pose a risk to life.”
Identical hazardConfidence 0.95 · high
Earlier report
“I heard that a bed on the mental health ward should have been available for Mr [name redacted] when he was discharged from the medical wards but that there is a chronic shortage of mental health beds and not just in London but nationally.”
This report
“There is a long standing and well publicised concern that there are fewer mental health beds than patients who are assessed as needing these.”