4:47 pm today

Suicide in mental health ward 'preventable' - coroner

From Checkpoint, 4:47 pm today

The brother of a man who died by suicide in Palmerston North Hospital's mental health ward in April 2014 has welcomed a damning coroner's report into the death. Shaun Gray died on the 16th of April, 2014, and today Coroner Matthew Bates released comprehensive findings into the failings in Mr Gray's care. Reporter Jimmy Ellingham spoke to Ricky Gray, asking him if he accepted the word of Health NZ, and the MidCentral District Health Board before it, that improvements have been made.