Patient's death exposes communications failures between NHS and private ADHD clinics

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By Daniel Pye

A coroner has warned that lives are at risk due to poor communication between private ADHD clinics and the NHS after a 23-year-old man was prescribed medication by both his GP and a private clinic.

Laura Bradford, senior coroner for East Sussex, issued a prevention of future deaths report to NHS England after an inquest concluded that Louis Saunders died by suicide.