[warning: death, heartbreaking story] This is appalling. How could it have happened?

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A dying woman called 999 and asked for an ambulance, giving her address. No ambulance was dispatched. Nobody checked up on her. Her profoundly disabled daughter, who depended on her totally, also died. Nobody noticed for weeks or months.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm2z36yzzdlo

I believe the house already looked very run down, so it didn’t look any worse with her death, iyswim. Most people, the difference would be visible. Not for them.

The latest BBC article seems to suggest locals are beating themselves up over this.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crk6p5gpd76o

God it just gets sadder and sadder.

Why are people so shocked? This is what life is like now if you are isolated with no family or friends, if you are have mental health issues or your child has complex medical issues, you are just left to fall through gaps.

I don’t think that’s entirely fair. Failures in the system yes. But this woman was actively disengaging and avoiding the authorities.

I read this story on the BBC tonight. An absolute tragedy and one that could have been avoided if services were more joined up. It is so incredibly sad.

This is what I was thinking. So many prank calls it’s maybe hard to work out the real ones when not much info given.