Nicola Brokenshire says she has been in and out of inpatient care with autism and resulting mental health problems for around 10 years
Staff were photographed asleep on the job, patients were going missing, one was discharged while saying he was suicidal, then jumped off a bridge and broke multiple bones.
But, Nicola says, climbing up there is also a form of therapy, a way of compensating for what she feels is lacking inside the hospital walls. She says:"Staff falling asleep is one of the most frustrating things about being in the hospital, it happens way too much. And when it does happen there is a significant risk."
"The managers don't seem to have a way of checking this and there is a culture within the healthcare system that facilitates this."Nicola agrees this is a problem. She says:"In the last 12 months I've been there, I've seen a big increase in the use of agency staff; agency staff that are travelling from further away.
She lost Laura to suicide after she was also a patient at Wotton Lawn. An inquest found the hospital had failed to pass on crucial information about Laura, regarding a suicide attempt, to another hospital leading to a fatal mistake. "It is essential that health, mental health, and local authority services and education providers consider the needs of autistic people in suicide prevention activity."
"So, each admission gets harder - it gets more physically difficult on my body and its mentally draining."
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