Thomas Moffett

“The evidence disclosed the need for healthcare and the prison to devise a better means of communication between healthcare personnel at the scene of a medical emergency and the prison control room / ambulance control”

“Similar communication difficulties have already been reported in relation to the inquest into the death of [name redacted] who died at HMP Lancaster Farms and the Prison and Probation Ombudsman has highlighted a delay in the provision of essential 1 information to Ambulance Control in the case of at HMP Garth who died on 9th December 2020”

“The fact that communication difficulties have arisen between healthcare and the ambulance service in three recent cases involving prisons in Lancashire may indicate a potentially national problem”