Inadequate clinical documentation of patient condition and decisions
Department of Health and Social Care received 2 coroners' reports about this hazard between 27 Apr 2020 and 25 Oct 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 2 specific actions.
The story, report by report
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“During the course of the inquest the documentation relied on by the trust was lacking in detail and meant that it was difficult to understand her condition at key points or to understand the rationale for decisions.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Department of Health and Social Care responded, stating 1 specific action.Response (PDF) ↗
“The NHS published the Interim People Plan1 in June 2019 that sets out the long-term vision and immediate actions to meet the challenges of workforce supply, reform, culture and leadership. Publication of the final NHS People Plan has been deferred so that the NHS is able to devote its full operational effort to the COVID-19 response. However, when published, the final NHS People Plan will set out further actions to secure the NHS staff we need in the future.”
Stated timescale: deferred until operational effort to COVID-19 response
- 4 years 6 months laterClosely relatedConfidence 0.90 · higha different coroner
“The investigation of this inquest was prejudiced by the absence of contemporary nursing and medical notes from various stages of [the deceased]'s treatment. The extent of these lapses meant staff who made important treatment decisions could not be identified, and where staff could be identified, no contemporary account of their rationale for making treatment decisions could be located.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Repeated from the earlier report:inquestmeantdecisionsrationale
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
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2020 → 2024Chloe Every4 years 6 months after Evelyn Ross · different coronerClosely relatedConfidence 0.90 · high
Closely relatedConfidence 0.90 · highBoth reports highlight insufficient or missing clinical documentation that prevents understanding of patients' conditions and the rationale behind treatment decisions. The earlier report cites lack of detailed trust documentation; the later report notes absent contemporary nursing and medical notes.
Evelyn Ross · 27 Apr 2020
“During the course of the inquest the documentation relied on by the trust was lacking in detail and meant that it was difficult to understand her condition at key points or to understand the rationale for decisions.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Chloe Every · 25 Oct 2024
“The investigation of this inquest was prejudiced by the absence of contemporary nursing and medical notes from various stages of [the deceased]'s treatment. The extent of these lapses meant staff who made important treatment decisions could not be identified, and where staff could be identified, no contemporary account of their rationale for making treatment decisions could be located.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗
Stated action · timescale: deferred until operational effort to COVID-19 response
“The NHS published the Interim People Plan1 in June 2019 that sets out the long-term vision and immediate actions to meet the challenges of workforce supply, reform, culture and leadership. Publication of the final NHS People Plan has been deferred so that the NHS is able to devote its full operational effort to the COVID-19 response. However, when published, the final NHS People Plan will set out further actions to secure the NHS staff we need in the future.”
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).”
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 → 2024 | 0.82 | 0.10 | Closely related · 0.90 | different |
Judge model: nvidia/nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b. How Nemotron did the work · Full methodology.
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