Inconsistent discharge policy application
Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust received 2 coroners' reports about this hazard between 11 Feb 2016 and 25 Jan 2017.
They came from 1 coroner. A similar concern was raised again 1 time after the first warning.
No published response from Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust was found for the earlier reports.
The story, report by report
Spacing grows with the time between reports.
“The Trust's discharge policy is excellent on paper, but unfortunately does not appear to be practiced, or wasn't in Mrs. [name redacted] case”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ No published response from Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust was found for this report.
- 11 months laterClosely relatedConfidence 0.90 · high
“(1) A poorly informed decision to discharge made for a patient with no real Improvement in his condition.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust responded, stating 1 specific action.Response (PDF) ↗
“The Trust is committed to ensuring that all available medical resources are used as effectively as possible; this includes prioritising those patients who will most benefit from direct medical input, rather than providing automatic medical review of all patients.”
- All reports to Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust
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.
2016 → 2017Raymond Pollard11 months after Marion Howes · same coronerClosely relatedConfidence 0.90 · high
Closely relatedConfidence 0.90 · highBoth reports identify failures in the hospital discharge process where patients were discharged without proper assessment or follow‑up. They differ in the specific circumstances: one concerns a lack of policy implementation, the other a poorly informed discharge decision.
Marion Howes · 11 Feb 2016
“The Trust's discharge policy is excellent on paper, but unfortunately does not appear to be practiced, or wasn't in Mrs. [name redacted] case”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Raymond Pollard · 25 Jan 2017
“(1) A poorly informed decision to discharge made for a patient with no real Improvement in his condition.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗
No published response from Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust was found for this report.
Stated action
“The Trust is committed to ensuring that all available medical resources are used as effectively as possible; this includes prioritising those patients who will most benefit from direct medical input, rather than providing automatic medical review of all patients.”
- 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 Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 → 2017 | 0.73 | 0.07 | Closely related · 0.90 | same |
Judge model: nvidia/nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b. How Nemotron did the work · Full methodology.
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