Governance failure in incident identification
Department of Health and Social Care received 4 coroners' reports about this hazard between 13 May 2024 and 23 Sept 2025.
They came from 1 coroner. A similar concern was raised again 3 times after the first warning.
A published response was found for 3 of the 3 earlier reports, stating 1 specific action.
The story, report by report
Spacing grows with the time between reports.
“A failure in governance at the Trust meant that this case was not identified as a serious incident. This omission gives rise to a concern that future deaths may follow due to an inability on the part of the trust to identify, reflect upon, and remediate sub-optimal practice”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Department of Health and Social Care responded.Response (PDF) ↗
- 5 months later
“Governance processes at the Trust failed to identify that [the deceased]'s death constituted a patient safety incident until months after her death.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Department of Health and Social Care responded, stating 1 specific action.Response (PDF) ↗
“BHRUT plan to recruit more learning disability nurses in 2025. They have created pathways to encourage and upskill existing staff due to the shortage of nurses going into learning disability training (RNLD).”
Stated timescale: 2025
- 7 months laterIdentical hazardConfidence 0.90 · high
“A failure in governance at the Trust meant that this case was not identified as an incident worthy of investigation through the Patient Safety Framework.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Repeated from the earlier report:governanceTrustincidentPatientSafety
Department of Health and Social Care responded.Response (PDF) ↗
- 4 months laterClosely relatedConfidence 0.90 · high
“A failure in governance at the Trust meant that this case was not identified as an incident worthy of investigation through the Patient Safety Framework. This omission gives rise to a concern that future deaths may follow due to an inability on the part of the trust to identify, reflect upon, and remediate sub-optimal practice”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Repeated from the earlier report:failuregovernanceTrustmeantcaseidentified
Department of Health and Social Care responded.Response (PDF) ↗Response (PDF) ↗
- All reports to Department of Health and Social Care
Each row is one judged link between an earlier and a later report. Open a row to read both quotes, found word for word in the originals.
2024 → 2025Kenneth Foster7 months after Chloe Every · same coronerIdentical hazardConfidence 0.90 · high
Identical hazardConfidence 0.90 · highBoth reports highlight a failure in the Trust's governance processes to recognize and report a death as a patient safety incident. The core issue is the same: inadequate identification of incidents through governance mechanisms.
Chloe Every · 25 Oct 2024
“Governance processes at the Trust failed to identify that [the deceased]'s death constituted a patient safety incident until months after her death.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Kenneth Foster · 12 May 2025
“A failure in governance at the Trust meant that this case was not identified as an incident worthy of investigation through the Patient Safety Framework.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Stated action in the response to the earlier report
“the Trust has put mitigations in place. The Trust provides mandatory training for all staff including both nursing and medical staff related to the care of patients with a Learning Disability.”
2024 → 2025Tony Jackson1 year 4 months after Elvon Morton · same coronerClosely relatedConfidence 0.90 · high
Closely relatedConfidence 0.90 · highBoth reports cite a governance failure that prevented the trust from recognizing and investigating a serious patient safety incident. They differ in the specific framework referenced (serious incident vs. Patient Safety Framework) and the cases examined.
Elvon Morton · 13 May 2024
“A failure in governance at the Trust meant that this case was not identified as a serious incident. This omission gives rise to a concern that future deaths may follow due to an inability on the part of the trust to identify, reflect upon, and remediate sub-optimal practice”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Tony Jackson · 23 Sept 2025
“A failure in governance at the Trust meant that this case was not identified as an incident worthy of investigation through the Patient Safety Framework. This omission gives rise to a concern that future deaths may follow due to an inability on the part of the trust to identify, reflect upon, and remediate sub-optimal practice”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Stated action in the response to the earlier report
“A specific induction programme has been formulated for the A&E which specifically covers themes such as the mental capacity act, contemporaneous documentation including emergency administered drugs with rationale, sedation and also escalation.”
2024 → 2025Tony Jackson11 months after Chloe Every · same coronerIdentical hazardConfidence 0.90 · high
Identical hazardConfidence 0.90 · highBoth reports describe a failure in the trust's governance processes to recognise a death as a patient safety incident requiring investigation. The core concern is the same: inadequate systems for identifying and reporting safety incidents.
Chloe Every · 25 Oct 2024
“Governance processes at the Trust failed to identify that [the deceased]'s death constituted a patient safety incident until months after her death.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Tony Jackson · 23 Sept 2025
“A failure in governance at the Trust meant that this case was not identified as an incident worthy of investigation through the Patient Safety Framework.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Stated action in the response to the earlier report
“the Trust has put mitigations in place. The Trust provides mandatory training for all staff including both nursing and medical staff related to the care of patients with a Learning Disability.”
No specific action could be extracted with a verified quote.
Stated action · timescale: 2025
“BHRUT plan to recruit more learning disability nurses in 2025. They have created pathways to encourage and upskill existing staff due to the shortage of nurses going into learning disability training (RNLD).”
No specific action could be extracted with a verified quote.
No specific action could be extracted with a verified quote.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 → 2025 | 0.81 | 0.15 | Identical · 0.90 | same |
| 2024 → 2025 | 0.89 | 0.67 | Closely related · 0.90 | same |
| 2024 → 2025 | 0.81 | 0.16 | Identical · 0.90 | same |
Judge model: nvidia/nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b. How Nemotron did the work · Full methodology.
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