'Our daughter was failed' - parents devastated after death of 16-year-old mental health patient

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A family has been left "devastated" following the death of their teenage girl on hospital grounds. Ellame Ford‑Dunn took her own life in March 2022 after running away from the Bluefin paediatric ward at Worthing Hospital, where she was being treated as a mental health inpatient. The 16-year-old had tried to run away "multiple times" during her stay on Bluefin ward at Worthing Hospital, which was not a specialist mental health ward. Her devastated mum, Nancy Ford-Dunn said: "I can't brush her

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