{"id":292081,"date":"2025-07-26T01:50:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T01:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/292081\/"},"modified":"2025-07-26T01:50:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T01:50:11","slug":"health-professionals-failed-graham-thorpe-coroner-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/292081\/","title":{"rendered":"Health professionals failed Graham Thorpe, coroner says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Given the conversation was over the phone, the psychiatrist was asked if it would have been appropriate to arrange to see Thorpe quickly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She told the court: &#8220;In the wisdom of hindsight, then yes, a home visit would have been clinically indicated.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This was never done by the private provider or the GP, and a risk panel advised it should be explored in June 2024, Dr Burgul told the court. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Asked whether there was any neuropsychological impact that could have affected the cricketer&#8217;s ability to engage in appointments, given he missed some, the psychiatrist said: &#8220;It&#8217;s a possibility, yes&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Thorpe&#8217;s cause of death was recorded by a pathologist as multiple injuries, the coroner said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His widow said the termination of his employment with the England and Wales Cricket Board had been a &#8220;real shock to Graham&#8221;, which was the &#8220;start of the decline of his mental health&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Given the conversation was over the phone, the psychiatrist was asked if it would have been appropriate to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292082,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4316],"tags":[105,4348,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-292081","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114917030237090008","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}