NRS-21901 | Death files [Royal Commission into the former Chelmsford Private Hospital and Mental Health Services in New South Wales]

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This series contains the files of 24 deep sleep therapy patients who died either at Chelmsford Private Hospital or within days of being discharged from the hospital. The series holds files that were created by Commission staff that were sent to a range of experts for their opinion on the cause of death. The assistance sought was that whether the cause or causes of death were correct or not on the death certificate. If the death was not correct what was their opinion that was the probable cause of death. The experts were also asked if any other part of the death certificate was incorrect or false and whether if the treatment at Chelmsford Private Hospital contributed to the illness which lead to the death of the deceased.

The files contained a range of copied records that included the death certificate, nurses notes on discharge from other hospitals, notes from other hospitals, electroencephalogram (EEG) reports, patient register, Dr Bailey's patient files.

The files are arranged by post it notes by surname of the deceased on the cover and then indexed by post it notes of the records collected within the file. Each file begins with the formal response and opinion from the expert and the official template letter sent from the Chelmsford Royal Commission staff to the expert. The remaining of the file contains the copied records.