Detention without section due to bed shortage
NHS England received 2 coroners' reports about this hazard between 27 Apr 2023 and 26 Sept 2024.
They came from 2 different coroners in 2 coroner areas. A similar concern was raised again 1 time after the first warning.
No published response from NHS England was found for the earlier reports.
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“[the deceased] cannot be legally detained as the section 2 is not complete until there is a bed.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ No published response from NHS England was found for this report.
- 1 year 5 months laterIdentical hazardConfidence 0.90 · higha different coroner
“patients who have been assessed by 2 s12 consultant psychiatrists to require detention after a mental health act assessment are being effectively detained in general hospitals without a section, awaiting a bed”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Repeated from the earlier report:detainedsection
NHS England responded.Response (PDF) ↗Response (PDF) ↗
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2023 → 2024Charne Petit1 year 5 months after Ben Shipley · different coronerIdentical hazardConfidence 0.90 · high
Identical hazardConfidence 0.90 · highBoth reports highlight that a shortage of mental health beds prevents the legal completion of a Section 2 detention under the Mental Health Act. Consequently, patients remain in general hospitals without proper statutory authority while awaiting a bed.
Ben Shipley · 27 Apr 2023
“[the deceased] cannot be legally detained as the section 2 is not complete until there is a bed.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Charne Petit · 26 Sept 2024
“patients who have been assessed by 2 s12 consultant psychiatrists to require detention after a mental health act assessment are being effectively detained in general hospitals without a section, awaiting a bed”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗
No published response from NHS England was found for this report.
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 NHS England 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 → 2024 | 0.79 | 0.26 | Identical · 0.90 | different |
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