Inadequate falls risk assessment update
Cole Valley Care Limited received 2 coroners' reports about this hazard between 8 Feb 2019 and 29 Mar 2021.
They came from 1 coroner. 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 1 specific action.
The story, report by report
Spacing grows with the time between reports.
“The current falls Risk Management and Risk Assessment documents (requested by the CQC and CCG) are undated and unsigned and continue to place reliance on the presence of a staff member to prevent falls”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Cole Valley Care Limited responded, stating 1 specific action.Response (PDF) ↗
“New, comprehensive Falls Risk Assessments (FRAs) for all residents have been introduced and completed. The FRAs consider internal and external risk factors, provide a risk score which then generates a”
Stated timescale: 03rd April 2019
- 2 years 2 months laterClosely relatedConfidence 0.85 · high
“The nursing home manager in her written report 5 to the Coroner stated that [the deceased]'s falls risk assessment had been updated. However, the evidence revealed in fact the falls risk assessment had been created on 30 September upon [the deceased]'s arrival, and had never been updated”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Repeated from the earlier report:fallsriskassessment
Cole Valley Care Limited responded.Response (PDF) ↗
- All reports to Cole Valley Care Limited
Each row is one judged link between an earlier and a later report. Open a row to read both quotes, found word for word in the originals.
2019 → 2021Raymond Powell2 years 2 months after Jean Cutler · same coronerClosely relatedConfidence 0.85 · high
Closely relatedConfidence 0.85 · highBoth reports concern inadequacies in the falls risk assessment process at the nursing home. The earlier report highlights undated, unsigned assessments relying on staff presence, while the later report shows assessments not being updated after a prior fall.
Jean Cutler · 8 Feb 2019
“The current falls Risk Management and Risk Assessment documents (requested by the CQC and CCG) are undated and unsigned and continue to place reliance on the presence of a staff member to prevent falls”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Raymond Powell · 29 Mar 2021
“The nursing home manager in her written report 5 to the Coroner stated that [the deceased]'s falls risk assessment had been updated. However, the evidence revealed in fact the falls risk assessment had been created on 30 September upon [the deceased]'s arrival, and had never been updated”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Stated action in the response to the earlier report
“New, comprehensive Falls Risk Assessments (FRAs) for all residents have been introduced and completed. The FRAs consider internal and external risk factors, provide a risk score which then generates a”
Stated action · timescale: 03rd April 2019
“New, comprehensive Falls Risk Assessments (FRAs) for all residents have been introduced and completed. The FRAs consider internal and external risk factors, provide a risk score which then generates a”
No specific action could be extracted with a verified quote.
- 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 Cole Valley Care Limited 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 → 2021 | 0.74 | 0.11 | Closely related · 0.85 | same |
Judge model: nvidia/nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b. How Nemotron did the work · Full methodology.
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