Paramedic staffing shortages impacting ambulance response times
North East Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust received 2 coroners' reports about this hazard between 21 May 2015 and 26 Jan 2018.
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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Spacing grows with the time between reports.
“During the inquest evidence was given that there is a national shortage of paramedics, which is particularly acute in the North East”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ North East Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust responded.Response (PDF) ↗
- 2 years 8 months laterClosely relatedConfidence 0.92 · higha different coroner
“I was told there were still 32 paramedic vacancies to be filled a year on after [the deceased]'s death.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ North East Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust responded.Response (PDF) ↗
- All reports to North East Ambulance Service NHS Foundation 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.
2015 → 2018Andrew Finlay2 years 8 months after Barbara Patterson · different coronerClosely relatedConfidence 0.92 · high
Closely relatedConfidence 0.92 · highBoth reports highlight ongoing problems with paramedic staffing levels affecting ambulance response times. The earlier report notes a national shortage especially in the North East, while the later report cites 32 unfilled paramedic vacancies a year after a death.
Barbara Patterson · 21 May 2015
“During the inquest evidence was given that there is a national shortage of paramedics, which is particularly acute in the North East”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Andrew Finlay · 26 Jan 2018
“I was told there were still 32 paramedic vacancies to be filled a year on after [the deceased]'s death.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Stated action in the response to the earlier report
“We will be meeting with NEAS in September 2015 to discuss and monitor how they are managing their delivery of the service, what is their current position of staffing levels and identified vacant posts and their current recruitment position.”
No specific action could be extracted with a verified quote.
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 North East Ambulance Service NHS Foundation 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 → 2018 | 0.63 | 0.06 | Closely related · 0.92 | different |
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