A teenager named Isobelle Phipps she was only 17 years old when she visited her doctor and revealed to him her plan to commit suicide. Despite this startling information the medic did not say anything to her parents, which eventually became fatal for the girl., according to the investigators, she took her own life the next day.
Isobelle, known to her friends as Issy, sa On April 28, 2023, she made an appointment with the doctorwhich was near her boarding school, Hartpury College, where she enjoyed playing rugby and studying for her GCSEs in PE, English and Psychology. During the meeting, he The 17-year-old girl was told about her plans to commit suicide, while also picking up a prescription for antidepressants.
Although the doctor after this startling encounter asked his superiors for advice, he decided not to contact the teenager’s parents. “Something in her body language told me she wasn’t going to do this act,” he said, according to records of the investigation. Instead, her referred by a doctor for an assessment to be carried out by the mental health crisis team at Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust.
Misunderstanding between health professionals
The team immediately contacted Issy, who told them announced that she was returning home to Cookham, Berkshire, for the weekend, where she planned to end her life. The crisis group contacted colleagues from this district, no they allegedly did not accept any recommendation that should have come from a general practitioner. This misunderstanding between hospitals and professionals caused that No health professional visited Issy’s family.
The next day in the evening the teenager sent her last messages to her family and friends. Although her parents, who had traveled to Wales for a rugby match that day, tried to contact her, Issy did not respond to phone calls or text messages at all. So they asked a family friend to visit their house. But that one found the lifeless body of a 17-year-old girl in the garage. They were on point paramedics were called immediately, who, despite attempts at resuscitation, had to declare Issy dead.
The mother of the deceased student Sarah who works as a nurse, now calls on all doctors to inform the child’s parents in a similar situation. “As a nurse, I feel that Issy was absolutely neglected,” she noted. Experts from the Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust have therefore ensured that will start working to prevent similar incidents in the future.
