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Rachael Ward

EXPLAINED: Staff failed to properly check on new mum before death | Rare Historical Photos

A coroner has made several recommendations after Sarah Skillington's death at a private hospital. (HANDOUT/9NEWS)

Hospital staff failed to properly check on a new mum in the grips of postpartum psychosis, but her suicide may not have been preventable, a coroner has found.

Sarah Skillington was last seen alive by her husband at 10.27pm as he left her room at the perinatal unit in the Ramsay Health Care-owned Mitcham Private Hospital, in Melbourne's east, on November 18, 2023.

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