To think hospital should not have let out actively suicidal person

[runnermum1974]

I don't want to reveal anyone specific so I am going to keep what happened very general:

Friends find a friend in acute distress and actively suicidal. They take suicidal friend to the hospital, and tell hospital the serious thing their friend was doing to be actively suicidal.

Hospital staff take away suicidal person for questioning. Suicidal person does not want to be in hospital - so they tell the hospital that they were just attention seeking and should be let out. The hospital let out the suicidal person and tell their friends it's fine (even though they were engaging in very risky behaviour).

AIBU to think that the hospital should not have let the suicidal person out so easily? They were told by the friends what the serious actively suicidal thing the person was doing - and an ill person does not necessarily have insight to know they need to be in hospital. Even in the unlikely event that actively suicidal behaviour was attention seeking, should they still not have got help? People who are really suicidal do not say so - so actions speak louder than words!

I was just shocked that an actively suicidal person was let out. This morning the suicidal friend did attempt suicide again (using same method hospital were told about and ignored) and did real damage to themselves. The hospital said they are going to do an SUI report (it was serious!), but by God was it better to have been safe than sorry!! Just wish they had a proper mental health assessment.

MH services need to be overhauled!

I can answer this one easily if your friend was on a mental health ward and the staff felt she was suicidal they could have stopped her leaving wether she was detained or not nurses can use the nurses holding power [registered mental health nurses] on a general ward the consultant could have been called and he could have put her on a holding section until she was appropriately assessed by the mental health team unfortunately over the past two years 15000 mental health beds in England have closed down with many more being proposed with the idea being that actively unwell people would get three visits a day at home I think its shocking but these are the proposals.

So 2xboys if a person tried a suicide attempt while on a mental health ward and were discharged because of it.. where would that fit in?

That's the state of the system today and it's appalling.

I really don't know its happening its terrible I agree people very vulnerable people are not being looked after I hope somebody would not be discharged because of it but the system is rotting.

It is and the poor staff in this field are helpless.. It must be frustrating :(

it is frustrating trust me we staff do not want theses proposals to go ahead we are petioning going on marches to get public awareness I could tell you about some appalling wastes of money but I don't want to out myself