Ambulance crew waiting in corridor due to insufficient clinical space
Department of Health and Social Care received 2 coroners' reports about this hazard between 19 Jul 2023 and 22 May 2026.
They came from 2 different coroners in 2 coroner areas. 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 0 specific actions.
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“The wait Mrs [name redacted] experienced with the ambulance crew in the corridor was due to demand for space within the Emergency Department due to patient numbers and issues with patient flow due to challenges in discharging patients from wards”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Department of Health and Social Care responded.Response (PDF) ↗
- 2 years 10 months laterClosely relatedConfidence 0.90 · higha different coroner
“there were around 20 patients in the corridor as the Department had reached capacity and there was no clinical area available to do so”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Repeated from the earlier report:patientscorridorDepartment
Department of Health and Social Care responded.Response (PDF) ↗Response (PDF) ↗Response (PDF) ↗
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2023 → 2026David Smart2 years 10 months after Thelma Radmore · different coronerClosely relatedConfidence 0.90 · high
Closely relatedConfidence 0.90 · highBoth reports highlight that emergency department overcrowding forces patients to wait in corridors due to insufficient clinical space. The earlier report links the delay to demand for space and discharge bottlenecks, while the later report notes corridor use when the department reaches capacity.
Thelma Radmore · 19 Jul 2023
“The wait Mrs [name redacted] experienced with the ambulance crew in the corridor was due to demand for space within the Emergency Department due to patient numbers and issues with patient flow due to challenges in discharging patients from wards”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ David Smart · 22 May 2026
“there were around 20 patients in the corridor as the Department had reached capacity and there was no clinical area available to do so”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗
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- 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 Department of Health and Social 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 → 2026 | 0.74 | 0.17 | Closely related · 0.90 | different |
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