Julia MacPherson
27 Sept 2018 · Coroner Sonia Hayes · London (South)
The coroner's concerns
1. medication side effects causing confusion
“twas agreed that [the deceased] usually had a comprehensive understanding of her mental health and medications and was an informal patient consenting to her care and treatment. Quetapine had been stopped due to concerns about seizures. A trial of Clozapine was commenced on 18 January 2016, prescribed off licence and [the deceased] and her family raised concerns with her clinicians who had made adjustments to her dose but she continued to experience side effects that she found difficult to tolerate. She had a home”