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ACT coroner finds Canberra Hospital failed four people who committed suicide at the facility
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Nicola Fisher died by suicide after being admitted to Canberra Hospital.
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The sister of a woman who took her own life at Canberra Hospital has criticised the length of a coronial inquest into four suicides at the facility s mental health unit.
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Families of those who died have slammed wildly inadequate funding for mental health support in Australia
The coroner found at the time of the deaths, nurses had been working double shifts to cover staffing shortfalls
The lengthy coronial process has renewed calls for a permanent ACT coroner