Surrey Mirror published NHS trust fined £300k after patient falls 130 feet to his...

An NHS trust has been fined £300,000 after a mentally-ill patient fell 130 feet to his death from a chimney at Epsom Hospital, just yards from his distraught mother.A Guildford Crown Court judge hit Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust with the financial penalty on Thursday afternoon (June 22) after it pleaded guilty to failing to discharge its health and safety duties.The trust was ordered to pay £16,769 costs in a prosecution brought by the Health and Safety...

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