Nurses filmed vaping and scrolling their phones as patient prepared to take own life
manchestereveningnews.co.ukCCTV footage shows nurses at a secure psychiatric unit doing each other's hair, vaping and scrolling on their phones while a struggling young patient prepared to take his own life.Brendan McFarlane, 20, known as Bren, died less than 24 hours after being admitted to The Harbour, a 154-bed mental health hospital in Blackpool, in October last year.
He should have been on constant observations but over the one-hour period before he was found unresponsive, the nurses watched him for less than three minutes, an inquest heard. READ MORE: Greater Manchester school slams 'entirely untrue' allegation as it SHUTS due to pro-Palestinian protest outside gates READ MORE: A night of shocking tragedy on the roads as man killed, another fights for life and pair left seriously hurt Last month, a jury ruled following a hearing that his death at the hospital, run by the Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust, was misadventure, contributed to by neglect.
One of the most distressing aspects of the evidence placed before the jurors was a series of CCTV clips which showed three employees in the nurses' station just inches away from where Bren sat on his bed and created an item he then used to take his own life.
Part of the footage has now been released by the coroner, LancsLive reports. During it, one nurse can be seen doing a colleague's hair while another plays on her phone.
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