Delayed emergency department treatment due to overcrowding
Department of Health and Social Care received 2 coroners' reports about this hazard between 4 Feb 2023 and 9 Apr 2025.
They came from 1 coroner. A similar concern was raised again 1 time after the first warning.
A published response was found for 1 of the 1 earlier reports, stating 2 specific actions.
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“Mrs [name redacted] wait of 3 hours in ED was not unusual and was due to the volume of patients waiting to be seen and the overall demand on ED.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Department of Health and Social Care responded, stating 1 specific action.Response (PDF) ↗
“we published our 'Delivery plan for recovering urgent and emergency care services' which aims to deliver sustained improvements in waiting times. Our ambitions for this year are to improve A&E waiting times to 78% of patients to be admitted, transferred, or discharged from A&E within four hours by March 2025, and to reduce Category 2 ambulance response times to 30 minutes on average across this fiscal year.”
Stated timescale: March 2025
- 2 years 2 months laterIdentical hazardConfidence 0.90 · high
“The Emergency Department at TGH was extremely busy on the day Mr [name redacted] arrived which was not unusual. The sheer volume of patients who were seriously ill meant that there was a delay in him being given antibiotics in accordance with his need.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Repeated from the earlier report:unusualvolumepatients
Department of Health and Social Care responded, stating 1 specific action.Response (PDF) ↗Response (PDF) ↗
“the CQC is replying to you separately”
Web search (Tavily): No evidence found either way
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2023 → 2025Bernard Lyon2 years 2 months after Patricia Green · same coronerIdentical hazardConfidence 0.90 · high
Identical hazardConfidence 0.90 · highBoth reports describe emergency department overcrowding due to high patient volume leading to delays in providing timely care.
Patricia Green · 4 Feb 2023
“Mrs [name redacted] wait of 3 hours in ED was not unusual and was due to the volume of patients waiting to be seen and the overall demand on ED.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Bernard Lyon · 9 Apr 2025
“The Emergency Department at TGH was extremely busy on the day Mr [name redacted] arrived which was not unusual. The sheer volume of patients who were seriously ill meant that there was a delay in him being given antibiotics in accordance with his need.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗
Stated action · timescale: March 2025
“we published our 'Delivery plan for recovering urgent and emergency care services' which aims to deliver sustained improvements in waiting times. Our ambitions for this year are to improve A&E waiting times to 78% of patients to be admitted, transferred, or discharged from A&E within four hours by March 2025, and to reduce Category 2 ambulance response times to 30 minutes on average across this fiscal year.”
Stated action
“the CQC is replying to you separately”
What happened next: No evidence found either way
The source does not mention any promised action by the Department of Health and Social Care regarding the CQC replying separately.
No evidence found does not mean the action did not happen.
No specific action could be extracted with a verified quote.
- Each report's concerns were extracted by Nemotron 3 Nano on Nebius Token Factory, each with a quote copied from the report.
- Concerns from reports to Department of Health and Social Care at least six months apart were compared by meaning (Qwen3 embeddings) and wording (TF-IDF).
- The closest pairs were judged by Nemotron 3 Super with reasoning on. Only identical or closely related, with confidence of at least 0.70, are shown.
- Every quote was checked by code as an exact substring of the original text. Names of staff and family are redacted, and the deceased are named by report title only.
| Link | Meaning | Wording | Judge | Coroner |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 → 2025 | 0.74 | 0.28 | Identical · 0.90 | same |
Judge model: nvidia/nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b. How Nemotron did the work · Full methodology.
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