Unavailable bed leading to delayed patient transfer
University College London Hospitals NHS Trust received 2 coroners' reports about this hazard between 27 Mar 2017 and 7 Dec 2023.
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 1 specific action.
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“I am concerned that this backup plan relied on the availability of a bed at a satellite hospital, which was ultimately not available when it was required.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ University College London Hospitals NHS Trust responded, stating 1 specific action.Response (PDF) ↗
“we will amend it by the end of May 2017 to take account of the normal practice with respect to Westmoreland Street Hospital (WMS) beds which is twice daily updates on the WMS bed state being sent to the main hospital”
Stated timescale: end of May 2017
- 6 years 8 months laterClosely relatedConfidence 0.85 · higha different coroner
“There was a ten day delay in Ms [name redacted] transfer from the Princess Royal Hospital to UCLH.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ University College London Hospitals NHS Trust responded.Response (PDF) ↗
- All reports to University College London 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.
2017 → 2023Sarah Chappell6 years 8 months after Michael Brennan · different coronerClosely relatedConfidence 0.85 · high
Closely relatedConfidence 0.85 · highBoth reports highlight problems caused by unavailable or unknown bed capacity leading to delayed patient transfers.
Michael Brennan · 27 Mar 2017
“I am concerned that this backup plan relied on the availability of a bed at a satellite hospital, which was ultimately not available when it was required.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Sarah Chappell · 7 Dec 2023
“There was a ten day delay in Ms [name redacted] transfer from the Princess Royal Hospital to UCLH.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Stated action in the response to the earlier report
“we will amend it by the end of May 2017 to take account of the normal practice with respect to Westmoreland Street Hospital (WMS) beds which is twice daily updates on the WMS bed state being sent to the main hospital”
Stated action · timescale: end of May 2017
“we will amend it by the end of May 2017 to take account of the normal practice with respect to Westmoreland Street Hospital (WMS) beds which is twice daily updates on the WMS bed state being sent to the main hospital”
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 University College London 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 → 2023 | 0.69 | 0.08 | Closely related · 0.85 | different |
Judge model: nvidia/nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b. How Nemotron did the work · Full methodology.
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