Sarah Poole
30 May 2017 · Coroner Zafar Siddique · Black Country
The coroner's concerns
1. failure to record and endorse doctor's name and consider prior abnormal ECG results
“failures to record and endorse the name of the Doctor reviewing the ECG and a failure to take into account previous abnormal ECG results during the handover from the paramedic staff”
Responses
2017-0176-Response-by-The-Royal-Wolverhampton-NHS-Trust.pdf ↗· The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust
Stated action · monthly audit
“The Emergency Department has instigated a policy that all ECGs must be reviewed and signed off by a Senior Decision Maker, i.e. a middle grade Doctor or Consultant.”