Teen Charlie Millers died on short-staffed mental health ward

The mental health ward where Charlie Millers suffered a fatal injury struggled with short staffing, an inquest has heard. However, staff taking care of Charlie before his tragic death say observations on him were happening every five minutes, as planned.

Those who were experienced nurses were also tasked with training up new staff who ‘potentially wouldn’t stay’, she said: “Keeping registered nurses was a challenge… that made it hard work on a ward because it felt like you had fewer experienced nurses…Another staff member giving evidence today told of how the trust has done ‘work around staff retention’ to improve since Charlie’s death.

Harry Osemwegie, a bank support worker who was tasked with carrying out the five-minute interval observations on Charlie later on that evening, and was the staff member who found Charlie in the moments after he had sustained injuries that would prove fatal.

The inquest had earlier been told how Charlie had been through a lot of 'trauma' throughout his life including being 'bullied at school' with 'acid thrown on him' and 'sexual abuse' over the course of five years. Charlie felt 'worthless', struggled with 'big feelings of shame' and 'did not feel safe in his relationships' ahead of his death, one doctor said.

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