Colin Flatt was described during the recent inquest as a fit and active man, who played football professionally, which included stints at Cambridge United, Leyton Orient and Southend United.<\/p>\n
In May 2021, he was suffering from memory loss and was admitted to Broomfield Hospital in Chelmsford with a low heart rate.<\/p>\n
He was assessed by the Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (EPUT) and was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease.<\/p>\n
Flatt was transferred to Goodmayes Hospital in Ilford, east London – after incidents of “violence and aggression” – and was detained under the Mental Health Act.<\/p>\n
On Wednesday, the 10-person jury at Essex Coroner’s Court concluded there was a missed opportunity when a mental health tribunal approved his discharge from Goodmayes in June 2021.<\/p>\n
The following month, after being admitted to Basildon Hospital, Flatt stabbed himself with scissors in the abdomen and climbed over a landing.<\/p>\n
He fell about 5m (16ft) on to a glass table and died in the September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Colin Flatt was described during the recent inquest as a fit and active man, who played football professionally,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":645826,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[134,554,555,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-645825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-health","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/645826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}