The Bristol University physics student Natasha Abrahart, who had severe social anxiety, was found hanged at her student flat on the day of an oral test she had been dreading. On 20 April last year, Abrahart was seen at the university’s students’ health service by a GP who noted she had run out of medication. The inquest was told that the “usual practice” of all GPs at the students’ health service was to make follow-up appointments two weeks after prescribing anti-depressants. As well as writing to the health secretary, Voisin sent her report to the minister for suicide prevention, Jackie Doyle-Price, the students’ health service and AWP. Her parents, Margaret and Robert, said in a statement: “If the students’ health service had followed the guidance then Natasha would have seen a doctor three days before her death.

Source: The Guardian May 24, 2019 10:53 UTC