Clozapine monitoring failures, schizophrenia and my brother Wim. A sister's story of his life, death and legacy: launching 'Wim's Protocol'

William Northcott (Wim) died at 39 years old on 13th July 2021 at his residential care home. His sister Kate postponed her legal career and embarked on a journey to uncover exactly how and why he died. To her profound shock she discovered his prescription medication, clozapine, had materially contributed to Wim's death. Kate spent 3 years researching clozapine monitoring failures and fatalities and her findings were published in The Times in January 2024.

Kate was determined that Wim’s death would bring meaningful change to patient safety. She met with the CE of the MHRA who agreed to a safety review and began meeting Lade Smith, President of RCPsych and her team regularly. With their expertise and Kate’s determination and passion 'Wim’s Protocol' emerged from the darkness of Wim’s death. Our hope is the protocol will be adopted by all Mental Health Trusts and providers of MH services ensuring a practical, usable safety tool to ensure learning from Wim’s death, saves the lives of his peers.

Speakers

Ms Kate Northcott-Spall

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