Stockport hospital failed woman who took poisonous substance, inquest finds

Priory hospital Cheadle Royal provided ‘inadequate care’ for Beth Matthews, who killed herself last year

A private psychiatric hospital provided “inadequate care” for a woman who killed herself by swallowing a poisonous substance, a jury has found.

Beth Matthews, a mental health blogger, was being treated as an NHS patient for a personality disorder at the Priory hospital Cheadle Royal in Stockport.