Recurance · prevention of future deaths reports
Pre-inquest brief
Inaccessible patient information across county boundaries
The earlier warning
Daniel Maher · 18 Apr 2017 · Anna Crawford, Surrey
“The court was told that mental health professionals cannot access patient information which is held on the computerised systems of mental health services outside their own county.”
judiciary.uk/prevention-of-future-death-reports/daniel-maher
What was promised
No published response from Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust was found for the earlier reports.
What recurred
- 22 Dec 2023 · Barbara Woodman · Darren Stewart · Identical hazard · confidence 0.90 (high)
The clearest link, quoted from both reports:
Earlier · Daniel Maher · 18 Apr 2017
“The court was told that mental health professionals cannot access patient information which is held on the computerised systems of mental health services outside their own county.”
Later · Barbara Woodman · 22 Dec 2023
“The ability of mental health clinicians to gain a complete picture of Ms. [name redacted] medical history was hampered by the fact that the information management systems holding these records at her GP practice was not accessible to secondary mental health services.”
What happened next
No web check of the stated actions has been published for this chain.