Margaret Evans
26 Jun 2018 · Coroner John Gittins · North Wales (East and Central)
This report repeats 2 earlier warnings, and was raised again 1 time later. See the linked reports.
The coroner's concerns
1. ambulance delays and admission to emergency department
“The issues of ambulance delays/admission to ED/availability of resources/patient flow and the multifactorial problems associated with cases of this nature have been reported upon by me on numerous occasions following previous inquests”
Linked reports
Identical hazardConfidence 0.90 · high
Earlier report
“That notwithstanding changes which have been made by both BCuHB and WAST, there remain wholly unacceptable delays with patients being kept waiting for long periods in ambulances and ambulance resources consequently being unavailable for allocation to other calls”
This report
“The issues of ambulance delays/admission to ED/availability of resources/patient flow and the multifactorial problems associated with cases of this nature have been reported upon by me on numerous occasions following previous inquests.”
Identical hazardConfidence 0.93 · high
Earlier report
“unacceptable delays with patients being kept waiting for long periods in ambulances and ambulance resources consequently being unavailable for allocation to other calls”
This report
“The issues of ambulance delays/admission to ED/availability of resources/patient flow and the multifactorial problems associated with cases of this nature have been reported upon by me on numerous occasions following previous inquests”
Identical hazardConfidence 0.90 · high
This report
“The issues of ambulance delays/admission to ED/availability of resources/patient flow and the multifactorial problems associated with cases of this nature have been reported upon by me on numerous occasions following previous inquests.”
Later report
“unacceptable delays with patients being kept waiting for long periods in ambulances and ambulance resources consequently being unavailable for allocation to other calls”
Responses
No published response was found on judiciary.uk.