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flag A 12-year-old girl died by suicide after doctors failed to test for treatable brain inflammation, an inquest found.

flag A 12-year-old girl, Mia Lucas, died by suicide in January 2024 at Sheffield’s Becton Centre after being admitted to Nottingham’s Queen’s Medical Centre for a psychotic episode. flag An inquest found that doctors failed to perform a lumbar puncture or other tests that could have detected autoimmune encephalitis, a rare brain inflammation causing acute psychosis, which was only confirmed post-mortem. flag The jury concluded the failure to test “possibly contributed” to her death and that the Becton Centre failed to adequately manage her self-harm risk. flag Mia’s mother, Chloe Hayes, said her daughter was a healthy, joyful child who never wanted to die and was let down by the medical system at every stage. flag The NHS trusts involved apologized, acknowledging lapses in care.

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