Absence of mental health liaison during 72‑hour hold and missing discharge note
Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust received 2 coroners' reports about this hazard between 19 Jun 2024 and 5 Jun 2025.
They came from 1 coroner. 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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“During the waiting period of up to 72 hours, Mental Health Liaison will not attend the acute ward or make assessment of the presenting risks of self-harm”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust responded, stating 1 specific action.Response (PDF) ↗
“In order to strengthen collaborative working across the two Trusts, a project group for development of the 'joint protocol' is being put into place. The first meeting with attendees from both Trusts has been arranged for 23rd September 2024”
Stated timescale: 23rd September 2024
- 1 year laterClosely relatedConfidence 0.80 · moderate
“There was no record of the mental health liaison nurse review on 24 June 2023 and the discharge of Mr [name redacted] from EPUT.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Repeated from the earlier report:mentalhealthliaison
Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust responded.Response (PDF) ↗
- All reports to Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
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2024 → 2025Nicholas Gray1 year after Aaron Deeley · same coronerClosely relatedConfidence 0.80 · moderate
Closely relatedConfidence 0.80 · moderateBoth concerns involve the absence or inadequacy of mental health liaison involvement/records for patients needing assessment. The earlier report notes a gap in liaison attendance during up to 72‑hour waits, while the later report highlights a missing record of a liaison nurse review on a specific date.
Aaron Deeley · 19 Jun 2024
“During the waiting period of up to 72 hours, Mental Health Liaison will not attend the acute ward or make assessment of the presenting risks of self-harm”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Nicholas Gray · 5 Jun 2025
“There was no record of the mental health liaison nurse review on 24 June 2023 and the discharge of Mr [name redacted] from EPUT.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Stated action in the response to the earlier report
“In order to strengthen collaborative working across the two Trusts, a project group for development of the 'joint protocol' is being put into place. The first meeting with attendees from both Trusts has been arranged for 23rd September 2024”
Stated action · timescale: 23rd September 2024
“In order to strengthen collaborative working across the two Trusts, a project group for development of the 'joint protocol' is being put into place. The first meeting with attendees from both Trusts has been arranged for 23rd September 2024”
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 Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 → 2025 | 0.63 | 0.17 | Closely related · 0.80 | same |
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Other chains for Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
- Inadequate risk assessment documentation and inaccurate record keeping6 reports · 2018–2026
- Incomplete investigation of patient observations2 reports · 2023–2025
- Lack of discharge plan responsibility and unclear care coordinator allocation2 reports · 2022–2025
- Inability to access GP medication records across systems3 reports · 2021–2025
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