Shocking moment NHS nurses braid each other's hair as young patient takes his own life

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A shocking new video has shown oblivious nurses styling each other's hair and scrolling on their mobiles phones while a struggling psychiatric patient prepared to take his own life just feet away.

Brendan McFarlane, 20, was admitted to The Harbour, a 154-bed mental health facility in Blackpool in October last year. An inquest has heard how the young man should have been under constant observation but died four days.

CCTV footage shows NHS nurses vaping as they neglect their duties and plait their hair. The video, which was captured while the young man was planning his suicide, was released as part of an inquest into his death.

As reported by LancsLive, he had been classified as Level 3 in terms of risk. Over the one-hour period before he was found unresponsive, the nurses watched him for less than three minutes.The inquest was told Bren, as he was known to friends and family, had waited three weeks for a bed on a mental health unit to become available after a psychiatrist requested he urgently be moved to a "place of safety".