Lack of shared welfare check guidance

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• 2015 → 2021Richard Boateng6 years 2 months after Anne Wilson · different coronerClosely relatedConfidence 0.80 · moderate

  Closely relatedConfidence 0.80 · moderate

  Both reports highlight a lack of clear, shared guidance between the London Ambulance Service and other agencies (police or GPs) when handling welfare‑check requests, leading to potential gaps in patient safety.

  Anne Wilson · 21 Jul 2015

  “The MPS and the London Ambulance Service (LAS) have joint working arrangements however the changes made concerning the future handling of welfare checks was not shared with the LAS at that time.”

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  Richard Boateng · 28 Sept 2021

  “The LAS quality manager accepted in evidence that it would have been better to have taken her number and to pass it on to the police to make contact.”

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  Stated action in the response to the earlier report

  “a Control Services Bulletin will be issued at the 15/89/2015 15:56 62077832889 LAS_LEGAL | PAGE 63/83 end of September 2015 about the MPS welfare checks policy to mitigate the risk of a call to a vulnerable patient being closed prior to assessment by a clinician.”

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