A patient who died after being given an anti-psychotic drug had expressed concerns about the large dose.
Bristol Crown Court has heard how two mental health nurses arrived at Joshua Gafney’s home on 8 February 2012 to administer a dose of clozapine.
He required just 6mls of the anti-psychotic drug but was given 14 times this amount, with a nurse pouring six bottles into a glass for him to drink.
When the patient’s mother questioned the dosage, the nurse said ‘that’s OK, that’s what Josh has got to have.’
Mr Gafney also suspected a mistake, asking his mother Tina Marren: ‘it was a little bit much wasn’t it Mum, why did she give me that much?’
Mrs Marren told the jury that she replied: ‘I don’t know Josh, she’s a nurse, she knows what she’s doing.”
Mr Gafney, who suffered from paranoid schizophrenia, went to bed shortly after being given the medication. He was found lifeless just one hour later.
Paramedics were called but he was pronounced dead at the scene.
The mental health nurse who administered the drug is currently on trial accused of manslaughter of gross negligence. She denies all allegations.
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