Lack of follow up after discharge or missed appointment
The Priory Hospital received 2 coroners' reports about this hazard between 9 Oct 2015 and 11 Aug 2016.
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.
The story, report by report
Spacing grows with the time between reports.
“There are no systems, either in private practice or in the Priory Hospital, Altrincham to contact patients following a failure to attend appointments”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ The Priory Hospital responded, stating 1 specific action.Response (PDF) ↗
“The amended Policy H105: Practising Privileges for Independent Doctors has been circulated electronically across the Healthcare Division with voting buttons to acknowledge receipt.”
Stated timescale: 2015-12-04
- 10 months later
Raised again · 1st time
Anthony Preston↗
11 Aug 2016 · Robert Chapman · Rutland and North Leicestershire
Closely relatedConfidence 0.85 · higha different coroner“(3) There was no immediate follow up by e mail or fax to the Crisis Team to notify the discharge, and the fact that Mr [name redacted] was at high risk because of the anxiety created when he was living at home.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ The most recent report. A response may not be due or published yet.
- All reports to The Priory Hospital
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 → 2016Anthony Preston10 months after Suzanne Greenwood · different coronerClosely relatedConfidence 0.85 · high
Closely relatedConfidence 0.85 · highBoth reports highlight a lack of systematic follow‑up communication after a patient’s discharge or missed appointment. The earlier report cites absent systems to contact patients after missed visits, while the later report notes missing email/fax notification to the crisis team after discharge.
Suzanne Greenwood · 9 Oct 2015
“There are no systems, either in private practice or in the Priory Hospital, Altrincham to contact patients following a failure to attend appointments”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Anthony Preston · 11 Aug 2016
“(3) There was no immediate follow up by e mail or fax to the Crisis Team to notify the discharge, and the fact that Mr [name redacted] was at high risk because of the anxiety created when he was living at home.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗
Stated action · timescale: 2015-12-04
“The amended Policy H105: Practising Privileges for Independent Doctors has been circulated electronically across the Healthcare Division with voting buttons to acknowledge receipt.”
No published response from The Priory Hospital was found for this report. It is the most recent report, so a response may not be due or published yet.
- 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 The Priory 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 → 2016 | 0.65 | 0.02 | Closely related · 0.85 | different |
Judge model: nvidia/nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b. How Nemotron did the work · Full methodology.
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