Long waiting times for psychological assessment
Department of Health and Social Care received 2 coroners' reports about this hazard between 16 Nov 2017 and 18 Oct 2024.
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 2 specific actions.
The story, report by report
Spacing grows with the time between reports.
“Timely access to Healthy Minds is also hindered by long waiting times.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Department of Health and Social Care responded, stating 1 specific action.Response (PDF) ↗
“The CCG commissioned a new Primary Care Mental Health Pathway during 2016/17, which mobilised in May 2017. The model has been developed to respond to the local population needs, preparing service users to access therapy in order to optimise recovery performance. The service is subject to robust a performance dependent payment framework which provides assurance of performance delivery.”
Stated timescale: May 2017
Web search (Tavily): No evidence found either way
Benefits of Mental Health Treatment in Primary Care - NeuroFlow ↗- 6 years 11 months laterClosely relatedConfidence 0.90 · higha different coroner
“Another particular problem identified was the long waiting times for psychological assessment.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Repeated from the earlier report:longwaitingtimes
Department of Health and Social Care responded, stating 1 specific action.Response (PDF) ↗
“I have asked NHS England to provide me with a report from the ICB detailing the local position so that I can understand what actions are being taken locally to prevent such a case from happening again.”
- All reports to Department of Health and Social Care
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.
2017 → 2024Robin Ward6 years 11 months after John Haines · different coronerClosely relatedConfidence 0.90 · high
Closely relatedConfidence 0.90 · highBoth reports highlight long waiting times as a barrier to receiving psychological services. The earlier report ties the delay to accessing Healthy Minds, while the later report notes long waits for psychological assessment more generally.
John Haines · 16 Nov 2017
“Timely access to Healthy Minds is also hindered by long waiting times.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Robin Ward · 18 Oct 2024
“Another particular problem identified was the long waiting times for psychological assessment.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Stated action in the response to the earlier report
“The CCG commissioned a new Primary Care Mental Health Pathway during 2016/17, which mobilised in May 2017. The model has been developed to respond to the local population needs, preparing service users to access therapy in order to optimise recovery performance. The service is subject to robust a performance dependent payment framework which provides assurance of performance delivery.”
Stated action · timescale: May 2017
“The CCG commissioned a new Primary Care Mental Health Pathway during 2016/17, which mobilised in May 2017. The model has been developed to respond to the local population needs, preparing service users to access therapy in order to optimise recovery performance. The service is subject to robust a performance dependent payment framework which provides assurance of performance delivery.”
What happened next: No evidence found either way
The organisation did not state that the pathway was commissioned or operational by May 2017.
“Benefits of Mental Health Treatment in Primary Care”
“Evolving Models of Behavioral Health Integration in Primary Care”
No evidence found does not mean the action did not happen.
Stated action
“I have asked NHS England to provide me with a report from the ICB detailing the local position so that I can understand what actions are being taken locally to prevent such a case from happening again.”
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 → 2024 | 0.77 | 0.23 | Closely related · 0.90 | different |
Judge model: nvidia/nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b. How Nemotron did the work · Full methodology.
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