Frederick Pring
21 Jan 2014 · Coroner John Gittins · North Wales (East & Central)
A similar concern from this report was raised again 5 times later. See the linked reports.
The coroner's concerns
1. delays in patient handover causing ambulance resource unavailability
“the current practices in place for the handover of patients at an Emergency Department far too often results in wholly unacceptable delays with patients being kept waiting for long periods in ambulances and ambulance resources consequently being unavailable for allocation to other calls”
Linked reports
Closely relatedConfidence 0.90 · high
This report
“the current practices in place for the handover of patients at an Emergency Department far too often results in wholly unacceptable delays with patients being kept waiting for long periods in ambulances and ambulance resources consequently being unavailable for allocation to other calls”
Later 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 as a result of which the risk of future deaths continues”
Identical hazardConfidence 0.95 · high
This report
“the current practices in place for the handover of patients at an Emergency Department far too often results in wholly unacceptable delays with patients being kept waiting for long periods in ambulances and ambulance resources consequently being unavailable for allocation to other calls”
Later report
“unacceptable delays with patients being kept waiting for long periods in ambulances and ambulance resources consequently being unavailable for allocation to other calls”
Closely relatedConfidence 0.90 · high
This report
“the current practices in place for the handover of patients at an Emergency Department far too often results in wholly unacceptable delays with patients being kept waiting for long periods in ambulances”
Later report
“The issues of ambulance delays/admission to ED/availability of resources/patient flow and the multifactorial problems”
Identical hazardConfidence 0.95 · high
This report
“the current practices in place for the handover of patients at an Emergency Department far too often results in wholly unacceptable delays with patients being kept waiting for long periods in ambulances and ambulance resources consequently being unavailable for allocation to other calls”
Later report
“unacceptable delays with patients being kept waiting for long periods in ambulances and ambulance resources consequently being unavailable for allocation to other calls”
Identical hazardConfidence 0.95 · high
This report
“the current practices in place for the handover of patients at an Emergency Department far too often results in wholly unacceptable delays with patients being kept waiting for long periods in ambulances and ambulance resources consequently being unavailable for allocation to other calls”
Later report
“unacceptable delays with patients being kept waiting for long periods in ambulances and ambulance resources consequently being unavailable for allocation to other calls”
Responses
2014-0024-Response-by-Welsh-Ambulance-Service.pdf ↗· Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board
Stated action
“incidents. WAST will review the Welsh MPDS codes and accompanying response recommendations (known as the 'DCR' table), with the intention of broadening the current response categories listed above to further distinguish between higher and lower acuity calls”