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Cygnet – a long track record of poor performance
SOLOMON HUGHES shines a light on the US privateer that’s failing to provide safe care to vulnerable mental health patients in services that the NHS is paying millions for

LAST month I wrote about Cygnet, the US-owned private health firm that sells mental health beds to the NHS. 

An inquest jury had just ruled that a patient who collapsed at their Cygnet Kewstoke hospital, dying soon after, received “gross failures” in her care. 

The inquest jury found the “understaffed” Cygnet hospital failed to spot the danger of the patients wildly excessive water-drinking, driven by her poor mental health, which preceded her seizure and death.

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