Ester Wood
6 Jun 2018 · Coroner David Pojur · North Wales (East and Central)
This report repeats 2 earlier warnings. See the linked reports.
The coroner's concerns
1. ambulance delays and admission to ED
“The issues of ambulance delays/admission to ED/availability of resources/patient flow and the multifactorial problems associated with cases of this nature have been reported upon by this Court on several occasions following previous inquests, most recently on 17th May 2017 by Mr Gittins, Senior Coroner concerning the death of [name redacted].”
2. patient flow issues
“patient flow and the multifactorial problems associated with cases of this nature have been reported upon by this Court on several occasions following previous inquests, most recently on 17th May 2017 by Mr Gittins, Senior Coroner concerning the death of [name redacted].”
Linked reports
Identical hazardConfidence 0.90 · high
Earlier report
“there remain wholly unacceptable delays with patients being kept waiting for long periods in ambulances and ambulance resources consequently being unavailable for allocation to other calls”
This report
“The issues of ambulance delays/admission to ED/availability of resources/patient flow and the multifactorial problems associated with cases of this nature have been reported upon by this Court on several occasions”
Closely relatedConfidence 0.90 · high
Earlier report
“substantial delays in the handover of patients particularly as a result of problems in patient flow”
This report
“patient flow and the multifactorial problems associated with cases of this nature have been reported upon by this Court on several occasions”
Responses
No published response was found on judiciary.uk.