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THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: Mental health services must not be allowed to shut themselves off from patients’ families. It is too late to secure justice for young people like Ruth Szymankiewicz, but it can never be too late to learn lessons from hospital failures

In an exclusive interview with The Independent and Sky News, former Huntercombe staff members give health correspondent Rebecca Thomas an insight into what it was like to work at the hospital where 14-year-old Ruth Szymankiewicz spent her tragic final days

Inquest told Ruth Szymankiewicz, 14, received ‘little, if any, therapeutic care’ at privately run Huntercombe hospital

Ruth Szymankiewicz, 14, should have been under constant watch at Huntercombe Hospital in Berkshire when she was left unsupervised.

Jury finds failings of worker before Ruth Szymankiewicz, 14, took own life amount to gross negligence manslaughter

Ruth Szymankiewicz, 14, died after a litany of failings at Huntercombe Hospital, where she should have had constant monitoring

Hospital was ‘severely short-staffed’ on the day the teenager was left alone when she should have had constant care

Mental health units for most mentally unwell children across the country struggle to staff wards, admits official

Ruth Szymankiewicz died after she was left unsupervised at a children’s mental health hospital by an inexperienced agency worker.