Ambulance arrival delay due to operational shortages
North East Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust received 2 coroners' reports about this hazard between 23 Mar 2016 and 27 Feb 2018.
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 2 specific actions.
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Spacing grows with the time between reports.
“the reasons for the delay of the ambulance arrival include severe demand and shortages in the division.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ North East Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust responded, stating 1 specific action.Response (PDF) ↗
“the Trust has undertaken initiatives to seek to educate both the public in relation to the appropriateness of making calls and to work with colleagues in other sectors to try to reduce the demand on Trust services.”
- 1 year 11 months laterIdentical hazardConfidence 0.90 · higha different coroner
“although there were several other initiatives under way, operational shortages were ongoing.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ North East Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust responded, stating 1 specific action.Response (PDF) ↗
“We are aiming to develop and approve an action plan by the end of May 2018 that will include timescales to address the shortfall in funding and deliver the ARP standards”
Stated timescale: end of May 2018
- All reports to North East Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust
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.
2016 → 2018Raymond Davidson1 year 11 months after Mandeep Singh · different coronerIdentical hazardConfidence 0.90 · high
Identical hazardConfidence 0.90 · highBoth reports highlight ongoing operational shortages and insufficient resources relative to demand as a cause of delayed ambulance responses.
Mandeep Singh · 23 Mar 2016
“the reasons for the delay of the ambulance arrival include severe demand and shortages in the division.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Raymond Davidson · 27 Feb 2018
“although there were several other initiatives under way, operational shortages were ongoing.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Stated action in the response to the earlier report
“the Trust has undertaken initiatives to seek to educate both the public in relation to the appropriateness of making calls and to work with colleagues in other sectors to try to reduce the demand on Trust services.”
Stated action
“the Trust has undertaken initiatives to seek to educate both the public in relation to the appropriateness of making calls and to work with colleagues in other sectors to try to reduce the demand on Trust services.”
Stated action · timescale: end of May 2018
“We are aiming to develop and approve an action plan by the end of May 2018 that will include timescales to address the shortfall in funding and deliver the ARP standards”
- 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 North East Ambulance Service 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 → 2018 | 0.73 | 0.17 | Identical · 0.90 | different |
Judge model: nvidia/nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b. How Nemotron did the work · Full methodology.
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