Incompatible electronic records between mental and physical health services
Department of Health and Social Care received 2 coroners' reports about this hazard between 30 Apr 2021 and 21 Jul 2023.
They came from 1 coroner 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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“Hospital and Mental Health Liaison staff are working with different | computer-based records systems.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Department of Health and Social Care responded, stating 1 specific action.Response (PDF) ↗
“Local areas will be supported to redesign and reorganise core community mental health teams to move towards a new place-based, multidisciplinary service across health and social care aligned with primary care networks.”
Stated timescale: 2023/24
- 2 years 3 months laterIdentical hazardConfidence 0.90 · high
“Mental Health Trusts and Acute Trusts operate different (apparently incompatible) electronic records systems.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Repeated from the earlier report:MentalHealthdifferentrecordssystems
Department of Health and Social Care responded.Response (PDF) ↗
- All reports to Department of Health and Social Care
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.
2021 → 2023Corinne Haslam2 years 3 months after Joanna Leven · same coronerIdentical hazardConfidence 0.90 · high
Identical hazardConfidence 0.90 · highBoth reports highlight that separate electronic record systems used by mental health and physical health services impede information sharing and create patient safety risks.
Joanna Leven · 30 Apr 2021
“Hospital and Mental Health Liaison staff are working with different | computer-based records systems.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Corinne Haslam · 21 Jul 2023
“Mental Health Trusts and Acute Trusts operate different (apparently incompatible) electronic records systems.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗
Stated action · timescale: 2023/24
“Local areas will be supported to redesign and reorganise core community mental health teams to move towards a new place-based, multidisciplinary service across health and social care aligned with primary care networks.”
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 Department of Health and Social Care 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 → 2023 | 0.80 | 0.35 | Identical · 0.90 | same |
Judge model: nvidia/nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b. How Nemotron did the work · Full methodology.
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