Patient died when nurse failed to assess suicide risk

A nurse who failed to properly assess a young singer as a suicide risk before she jumped from a hospital roof has been thrown out of the profession. Susannah Ajayi, 60, was working at the Lister Mental health unit in Stevenage, Hertfordshire, when Rebecca Brooks, 23, was admitted after being found at a railway crossing. She had been wandering in the vicinity of the railway tracks and narrowly missed being hit by a number of trains, a Nursing and Midwifery…