Inadequate electronic health record availability for detainees
Home Office received 2 coroners' reports about this hazard between 18 Sept 2014 and 2 Apr 2019.
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 0 specific actions.
The story, report by report
Spacing grows with the time between reports.
“The absence of a comprehensive and accessible (computerised) clinical record relating to each detainee at IRCs Harmondsworth and Colnbrook.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Home Office responded.Response (PDF) ↗
- 4 years 6 months laterClosely relatedConfidence 0.85 · higha different coroner
“That SystmOne is not operating adequately when new detainees arrive at IRCs.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ The most recent report. A response may not be due or published yet.
- All reports to Home Office
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.
2014 → 2019Tarek Chowdhury4 years 6 months after Brian Dalrymple · different coronerClosely relatedConfidence 0.85 · high
Closely relatedConfidence 0.85 · highBoth reports highlight problems with the electronic health‑record system used for detainees, noting that necessary information is not reliably available.
Brian Dalrymple · 18 Sept 2014
“The absence of a comprehensive and accessible (computerised) clinical record relating to each detainee at IRCs Harmondsworth and Colnbrook.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Tarek Chowdhury · 2 Apr 2019
“That SystmOne is not operating adequately when new detainees arrive at IRCs.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗
No specific action could be extracted with a verified quote.
No published response from Home Office was found for this report. It is the most recent report, so a response may not be due or published yet.
- 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 Home Office 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 → 2019 | 0.74 | 0.07 | Closely related · 0.85 | different |
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