A MENTAL health unit failed to spot signs a patient was about to take his own life, although he had revealed suicidal thoughts and harmed himself the same day.The "polite and sociable" former IT consultant John Beecroft was an informal voluntary patient at the centre, suffering anxiety and depression.He was found hanging in a bathroom at the Finchingfield ward of the Broomfield-based Linden Centre on February 12 this year.Five days later, his life support machine was switched...
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