Excessive ambulance response delays for frail elderly hip fracture patients
Greater Manchester Integrated Care received 2 coroners' reports about this hazard between 19 Jul 2023 and 3 May 2024.
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.
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“The inquest was told that the wait time that was given at the time of the initial call was due to demand on the ambulance service”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Greater Manchester Integrated Care responded, stating 1 specific action.Response (PDF) ↗
“Learning to be presented/shared with the Greater Manchester System Quality Group on 21st September 2023.”
Stated timescale: 21st September 2023
- 9 months laterIdentical hazardConfidence 0.90 · high
“The inquest was told that due to significant demand the wait time for an ambulance in category 3 was in excess of 4 hours rather than the target 1 hour”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Repeated from the earlier report:inquesttolddemandwaittimeambulance
Greater Manchester Integrated Care responded.Response (PDF) ↗
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2023 → 2024Michael Clarke9 months after Bernhard Marek · same coronerIdentical hazardConfidence 0.90 · high
Identical hazardConfidence 0.90 · highBoth reports highlight excessive ambulance response times caused by high demand and resource pressures. The core concern is that patients experience delays far exceeding target times.
Bernhard Marek · 19 Jul 2023
“The inquest was told that the wait time that was given at the time of the initial call was due to demand on the ambulance service”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Michael Clarke · 3 May 2024
“The inquest was told that due to significant demand the wait time for an ambulance in category 3 was in excess of 4 hours rather than the target 1 hour”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗
Stated action · timescale: 21st September 2023
“Learning to be presented/shared with the Greater Manchester System Quality Group on 21st September 2023.”
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 Greater Manchester Integrated Care 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 → 2024 | 0.70 | 0.17 | Identical · 0.90 | same |
Judge model: nvidia/nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b. How Nemotron did the work · Full methodology.
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