Ginger Wright
26 Jun 2023 · Coroner Anna Crawford · Surrey
This report repeats 2 earlier warnings. See the linked reports.
The coroner's concerns
1. delayed urgent clinical review
“There is a risk of a future reoccurrence of the situation which arose on 14 June 2022 given that SECAMBS is regularly operating at Stage 4 of its Surge Management Plan, meaning that demand for the service is significantly outstripping available resources and the service is not capable of responding to calls within target timeframes.”
Linked reports
Closely relatedConfidence 0.85 · high
Earlier report
“the ambulance was so delayed in its response to Mr [name redacted]”
This report
“SECAMBS is regularly operating at Stage 4 of its Surge Management Plan, meaning that demand for the service is significantly outstripping available resources and the service is not capable of responding to calls within target timeframes.”
Closely relatedConfidence 0.85 · high
Earlier report
“there were insufficient resources to deal with the high number of calls on this day which meant that these two ladies were left on the floor for over 7 hours”
This report
“SECAMBS is regularly operating at Stage 4 of its Surge Management Plan, meaning that demand for the service is significantly outstripping available resources”