Missing prior suicide attempt information
Devon Partnership NHS Trust received 2 coroners' reports about this hazard between 26 Jul 2022 and 11 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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“The previous incident in which [the deceased] had attempted to take his own life in very similar circumstances on the ward was not clearly entered on the risk assessments used by staff and therefore not known to a number of those responsible for his care”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Devon Partnership NHS Trust responded, stating 1 specific action.Response (PDF) ↗
“The Trust has undertaken a Serious Incident Investigation following the death of [the deceased]; the report was shared at the inquest and I can confirm that the action plan developed in response to the RCA investigation has been completed.”
- 1 year 5 months laterClosely relatedConfidence 0.90 · higha different coroner
“At least one member of staff was unaware that [the deceased] had described himself to staff in May 2020 as looking for an opportunity to take his own life if it arose”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Repeated from the earlier report:stafftakelife
Devon Partnership NHS Trust responded.Response (PDF) ↗
- All reports to Devon Partnership 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.
2022 → 2023Paul Perrott1 year 5 months after Archi Johnson · different coronerClosely relatedConfidence 0.90 · high
Closely relatedConfidence 0.90 · highBoth reports highlight that staff were not informed of a patient's previous self‑harm attempt, which hindered risk assessment and care planning. The earlier case concerns missing data in risk assessments; the later case concerns missing communication of a recent attempt description.
Archi Johnson · 26 Jul 2022
“The previous incident in which [the deceased] had attempted to take his own life in very similar circumstances on the ward was not clearly entered on the risk assessments used by staff and therefore not known to a number of those responsible for his care”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Paul Perrott · 11 Dec 2023
“At least one member of staff was unaware that [the deceased] had described himself to staff in May 2020 as looking for an opportunity to take his own life if it arose”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Stated action in the response to the earlier report
“The Trust has undertaken a Serious Incident Investigation following the death of [the deceased]; the report was shared at the inquest and I can confirm that the action plan developed in response to the RCA investigation has been completed.”
Stated action
“The Trust has undertaken a Serious Incident Investigation following the death of [the deceased]; the report was shared at the inquest and I can confirm that the action plan developed in response to the RCA investigation has been completed.”
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 Devon Partnership 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 → 2023 | 0.82 | 0.18 | Closely related · 0.90 | different |
Judge model: nvidia/nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b. How Nemotron did the work · Full methodology.
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