A 'selfless' grandmother who struggled with her mental health was discharged from hospital two days before her death, an inquest has heard.
Mum-of-five Joy Burgess, 56, from Tameside, died after falling from a bridge onto the M60 on June 9 last year.
A pre-inquest review at Manchester South Coroner's Court today (January 18) heard that Ms Burgess died from 'multiple injuries' after falling from the bridge just after 10.30am on June 9.
Ms Burgess was seen on the wrong side of a barrier on a bridge over the M60 and 'as people approached her' she fell, a previous hearing heard.
The review heard that she had spent 'five days at the beginning of June' in hospital before being discharged from a mental health ward on June 7, according to solicitor for Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust, Richard Cliff.
"At that stage Ms Burgess was wanting to be discharged and didn't fulfil the criteria for the Mental Health Act," he added.
Mr Cliff suggested there had been some changes on the ward that meant she wanted to be discharged earlier than was wanted but that there was engagement with the home care team which 'supports the appropriateness of the discharge.'
There was believed to be 'no real and immediate risk of harm' for Ms Burgess with another positive phone call and home visit on June 8.
A home visit was arranged for the following day, the court heard.
However, when the practitioner could not get hold of her "she called 999 very quickly", Mr Cliff said.
He added: "It (treatment after hospital discharge) was all appropriate."
Area coroner for Manchester south, Chris Morris, suggested that there appeared to be 'no gaps in the provision of services'.
He added: "There was a general level of risk because of her complex mental health problems going into hospital at the beginning of June."
But there was "no real and immediate risk that the authorities ought to have known about," Mr Morris added.
Mr Morris told the court a "full, frank, and fearless investigation into her death" will take place in an inquest on February 4.
Last June, the family of Joy, who grew up in Hattersley but was living in Ashton-Under-Lyne when she died, and who leaves behind her three sons, two daughters and six much-loved grandchildren, paid moving tributes to her.
Her son, David Burgess, told the Manchester Evening News : "My mum was an all-around loving woman."
"She was just so giving," he added.
"She would hide her feelings in front of everybody, a lot of the time, just to make other people happy and to make them smile.
“My mum would go out of her way for anybody, she’d do anything for anybody. She’d go without just to make sure somebody else had something. She was selfless at every point."
She struggled with her mental health, he said, but used her first-hand knowledge of her own difficulties and spent time learning and training how to relieve the pain of people just like her David said.
She "did courses, got certificates, went on trips and spent a lot of time with people in difficult states of mind" and "over the last few years, she really tried her hardest to get in that position to help" he said.
