Questions for Sheffield NHS trust over man’s suicide
South Yorkshire East coroner Nicola Mundy has published a prevention of future deaths report about Jason Ricardo White - who took his own life in 2024
Last updated 31st Dec 2025
A Sheffield NHS trust has been questioned by a coroner about the “abrupt” withdrawal of antipsychotic drugs to a man who died by suicide.
South Yorkshire East coroner Nicola Mundy published a prevention of future deaths report about Jason Ricardo White, following an inquest she held following his death in December 2024. The inquest concluded the cause of death was suicide.
The report states: “Jason Ricardo White developed mental health symptoms in April 2024 which were essentially depression and psychotic episodes.
“Mr White engaged with both his GP and mental health support services including the Priory hospital in Nottingham, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS
Trust, Sheffield Health Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust and Sheffield City Council to manage his symptoms.
“He remained fixated on his symptoms being linked to serious medical complaints and appeared at no time to accept that the physical symptomology of which he complained was inextricably linked to his mental health challenges.
“Mr White received various levels of management which included medication. One of those medications was Olanzapine. This was ceased abruptly due to a belief that this was responsible for deranged liver function tests but there was inadequate follow-up thereafter.”
Ms Mundy outlined three causes for concern.
These were that the antipsychotic medication Olanzapine was abruptly ceased and a daily monitoring management plan was not followed.
This created “a risk of relapse in terms of psychotic symptoms and associated deterioration in mental health”.
The report said there are risks of relapse when any medication is abruptly ceased.
It added that this “must be fully monitored; the absence of full assessment and monitoring exposes patients to risk of a serious deterioration in mental health”.
The Sheffield Health Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust has until February 13, 2026 to respond to the coroner. The coroner also named an individual whose details were redacted from the public version of the report as needing to respond by the same date.
The detatils of Mr White’s death were also redacted from the report.
Copies of the report have been sent to the chief coroner and “interested persons” Sheffield City Council and Priory Healthcare.
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