Inadequate risk information sharing and documentation
Ministry of Defence received 2 coroners' reports about this hazard between 20 Feb 2015 and 29 Nov 2024.
They came from 2 different coroners in 2 coroner areas. 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 1 specific action.
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“As to how that information is shared with other agencies involved in the care of that patient to ensure that it is accurately passed on, particularly as to the level of risk and degree of urgency.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Ministry of Defence responded, stating 1 specific action.Response (PDF) ↗
“we are now updating leaflet 2-7-2 of the Department's medical policy document (Joint Service Publication (JSP) 950) which covers the provision and management of Defence mental health services. This will include new guidance and policy on the principles of transfer, which will include addressing both internal transfers of care between different Defence Medical Services (DMS) care providers and the transfers between DMS providers and external agencies.”
- 9 years 9 months laterClosely relatedConfidence 0.90 · higha different coroner
“The lack of detail contained within the case conference notes hindered this inquest's ability to establish precisely what risk information was shared.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Repeated from the earlier report:riskinformationshared
Ministry of Defence responded.Response (PDF) ↗
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2015 → 2024Charlie Owen9 years 9 months after Richard Jones · different coronerClosely relatedConfidence 0.90 · high
Closely relatedConfidence 0.90 · highBoth reports highlight problems with sharing and documenting risk-related information about armed forces personnel with mental health needs. The earlier report focuses on inter‑agency transmission of risk details, while the later report notes insufficient detail in case conference notes and VRM process documentation.
Richard Jones · 20 Feb 2015
“As to how that information is shared with other agencies involved in the care of that patient to ensure that it is accurately passed on, particularly as to the level of risk and degree of urgency.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Charlie Owen · 29 Nov 2024
“The lack of detail contained within the case conference notes hindered this inquest's ability to establish precisely what risk information was shared.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Stated action in the response to the earlier report
“we are now updating leaflet 2-7-2 of the Department's medical policy document (Joint Service Publication (JSP) 950) which covers the provision and management of Defence mental health services. This will include new guidance and policy on the principles of transfer, which will include addressing both internal transfers of care between different Defence Medical Services (DMS) care providers and the transfers between DMS providers and external agencies.”
Stated action
“we are now updating leaflet 2-7-2 of the Department's medical policy document (Joint Service Publication (JSP) 950) which covers the provision and management of Defence mental health services. This will include new guidance and policy on the principles of transfer, which will include addressing both internal transfers of care between different Defence Medical Services (DMS) care providers and the transfers between DMS providers and external agencies.”
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 Ministry of Defence 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 → 2024 | 0.74 | 0.11 | Closely related · 0.90 | different |
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