Insufficient qualified nursing staff on surgical unit
Tameside General Hospital received 2 coroners' reports about this hazard between 13 Jan 2014 and 17 May 2019.
They came from 2 different coroners. A similar concern was raised again 1 time after the first warning.
No published response from Tameside General Hospital was found for the earlier reports.
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“There was a shortage of staff on duty on the Surgical Unit on the night of the 9th December. There was only one auxillary nurse who was not familiar with the Surgical Unit.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ No published response from Tameside General Hospital was found for this report.
- 5 years 4 months laterClosely relatedConfidence 0.85 · higha different coroner
“The Ward Manager of Ward 31 confirmed in her evidence that, at the time of the care provided to Mr [name redacted], there was only one permanent substantive registered nurse working on the ward, with the vast majority of shifts being fulfilled by agency workers”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Tameside General Hospital responded.Response (PDF) ↗
- All reports to Tameside General Hospital
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2014 → 2019Mellin Beard5 years 4 months after Barbara White · different coronerClosely relatedConfidence 0.85 · high
Closely relatedConfidence 0.85 · highBoth reports highlight insufficient qualified nursing staff on the ward leading to risks for patient safety.
Barbara White · 13 Jan 2014
“There was a shortage of staff on duty on the Surgical Unit on the night of the 9th December. There was only one auxillary nurse who was not familiar with the Surgical Unit.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Mellin Beard · 17 May 2019
“The Ward Manager of Ward 31 confirmed in her evidence that, at the time of the care provided to Mr [name redacted], there was only one permanent substantive registered nurse working on the ward, with the vast majority of shifts being fulfilled by agency workers”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗
No published response from Tameside General Hospital was found for this report.
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 Tameside General Hospital 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 → 2019 | 0.66 | 0.04 | Closely related · 0.85 | different |
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