Julia Dell

At the inquest I found that the medical service Mrs Dell had received from primary care during the period from July 2011 until 4 April 2012 had been exemplary. This included the period from mid December 2011 until mid April 2012 when responsibility for Mrs Dell’s care passed to Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.

I was told that on 4 April 2012 Mrs Dell decided to change GP within the practice and her care then passed to and who job share. In the period from 4 April until Mrs Dell’s death on 22 August there was only one further contact with primary care.

At inquest, conceded that: “it would have been nice for there to have been more involvement from primary care after April 2012”. He indicated also that the surgery was unaware of Mrs Dell’s fluctuating mood from April until her death.

(1) There appears to have been no formal hand over between to in early April 2012.

(2) On 19 April 2012 a care plan was received from the Community Mental Health

Team following Mrs Dell’s discharge from their care back to primary care. No action seems to have been taken upon its receipt. It appears as though the doctors have accepted the reassurance of the CPN that Mrs Dell’s moods had stabilised on the medication prescribed to her not withistanding the fact that only three weeks previously on 22 March 2012 had contacted to express his concerns over Mrs Dell’s wellbeing