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PRIVATE mental healthcare firm the Priory Group is facing a multimillion-pound fine for breaching health and safety laws after a 14-year-old girl died in its care, Brighton magistrates’ court heard today.
The Priory Group pleaded guilty to health and safety charges following the death of Amy El-Keria in 2012.
She was an NHS-funded patient in a specialist children’s unit at Ticehurst House in East Sussex, a private psychiatric hospital run by the Priory Group.
Groups are urging the US government to secure the 16-year old’s release as his mental and physical health decline dramatically after nine months inside Ofer prison, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
When privatisation is already so deeply embedded in the NHS, we can’t just blindly argue for ‘more funding’ to solve its problems, explain ESTHER GILES, NICO CSERGO, BRIAN GIBBONS and RATHI GUHADASAN