A coroner has found that the 2014 suicide of a 21-year-old university student in an overcrowded and poorly designed mental health ward at Palmerston North Hospital was preventable due to staff failures in following protocols and a lack of adequate observation and documentation.
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critical 55-minute gap in monitoring
'Never fit for purpose': Student died in overcrowded, 'poorly designed' hospital unitproven lapse in monitoring during high-risk periods
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