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Sarah Mitchell

2024-0012
Prevention of Future Deaths Report

Coroner

Coroner's area

Date of report

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Darren Stewart

Suffolk

8 January 2024

Report recipients

Any other locally commissioned/provided NHS service

Hospitals and other NHS acute settings

"The provision to Ms. MITCHELL of 28 days’ worth of prescribed medication in less than a 48-hour period (14 days’ worth of medication dispensed on each occasion she was discharged hospital on the 3rd and 4th of August 2022). This occurred at a time when, due to concerns about Ms. MITCHELL hoarding medication and taking an overdose, she was receiving weekly medication prescriptions from her GP to control this risk.

"The evidence heard at Inquest indicated that there was no process in place whereby accident and emergency staff could access Ms. MITCHELL’s medical records detailing the medication she was receiving and the rationale behind the dispensing regime in place."

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