Gladys Williams
10 Sept 2018 · Coroner John Gittins · North Wales (East and Central)
This report repeats 5 earlier warnings, and was raised again 1 time later. See the linked reports.
The coroner's concerns
1. ambulance delays and admission to emergency department
“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 me on numerous occasions following previous inquests”
Linked reports
Closely relatedConfidence 0.90 · high
Earlier 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”
This report
“The issues of ambulance delays/admission to ED/availability of resources/patient flow and the multifactorial problems”
Closely relatedConfidence 0.93 · 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 me on numerous occasions following previous inquests.”
Closely relatedConfidence 0.90 · high
Earlier report
“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 me on numerous occasions following previous inquests.”
Identical hazardConfidence 0.96 · high
Earlier 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 me on several occasions following previous inquests.”
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 me on numerous occasions following previous inquests.”
Closely relatedConfidence 0.90 · high
Earlier report
“The issues of admission to the Emergency Department/availability of resources/patient flow and the multifactorial problems associated with cases of this nature have been reported upon by the Senior Coroner on several occasions following previous inquests.”
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 me on numerous occasions following previous inquests”
Closely relatedConfidence 0.90 · high
This report
“The issues of ambulance delays/admission to ED/availability of resources/patient flow”
Later report
“unacceptably lengthy delays remain such as in the case of [the deceased]”
Responses
No published response was found on judiciary.uk.