{"id":944949,"date":"2026-05-08T00:53:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T00:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/944949\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T00:53:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T00:53:20","slug":"bipolar-patient-who-died-was-not-triaged-well-at-kent-nhs-trust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/944949\/","title":{"rendered":"Bipolar patient who died was &#8216;not triaged well&#8217; at Kent NHS trust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The person who completed a risk assessment tool for Roomes was not qualified to do so, and did not refer him to a clinician when it should have done, according to the report.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Potter said there were concerns that non-clinical decision makers were &#8220;potentially overconfident&#8221; or did not fully understand the effect of their decisions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The coroner said there were &#8220;numerous missed opportunities&#8221; for Roomes to be seen by a clinician.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A similar patient would now be able to access care directly, he wrote, but &#8220;the concern remains that there is potentially a wider training issue&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The person who completed a risk assessment tool for Roomes was not qualified to do so, and did&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":944950,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[105,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-944949","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116536227076888607","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944949","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=944949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/944950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=944949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=944949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=944949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}