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Joanne Richardson

Evidence boundary. This page is a structured project extraction from the linked primary Prevention of Future Deaths source. It is not the report text. Do not infer cause, prevalence or product-wide performance beyond the source and the explicit qualification below.

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Report metadata

Field Value
PFD reference 2018-0134
Registered primary source SRC-113
Report date 2018-05-08
Coroner area Dorset
Clinical setting Community mental-health care
Care transition Assessment, referral and follow-up
Primary workflow group Risk, care planning and safeguarding
Primary browsing context Mental health care
Predominant information boundary Between care settings

The workflow, browsing-context and predominant-boundary fields are retained navigation aids. They are not additional coronial findings, and a single primary value cannot express every aspect of a multi-setting or multi-mechanism report.

Care-pathway classification

This classification distinguishes where safety-relevant information or work arose, where action was expected and where the digital or information workflow failed. It is a project coding of the source, not a coronial statement. “Origin” does not mean the organisation caused the harm.

Dimension Project classification
Settings and pathway participants Community mental-health care
Information or work-item origin Community mental-health care
Origin care context(s) Community care
Expected action destination Community mental-health care
Destination care context(s) Community care
Directional pathway Community mental-health care → Community mental-health care
Care-setting span One care setting
Sector boundary Health services only
Failure point Transfer or interface
Classification confidence high

Classification note: The assessment, crisis and CMHT information moved between Steps to Wellbeing, the Crisis Team and the CMHT within community mental-health care. The failure was cross-team transfer and follow-up, not a demonstrated primary-to-secondary transition.

Classification confidence applies only to this care-pathway coding. It is separate from extraction confidence, source authority and causal certainty.

Evidence status and qualification

Field Status
Extraction confidence high
Verification status Primary source linked; high-confidence extraction
Response evidence status Not assessed in this dataset
Registered response sources None registered for this row
Non-exclusive mechanism codes INT, LOOP, VIS, GOV

Qualification recorded in the dataset: The report frames the electronic-record and referral defects as future-death risks and does not attribute this death to a discrete digital-system failure

“Response evidence noted” means only that the row qualification refers to response/respondent evidence or records a recipient's post-report position. The linked IDs enumerate the official response attachments registered for this row; they do not imply that every response supports every part of the qualification, and they do not establish implementation. “Not assessed” makes no claim about whether a response exists.

Structured project extraction

These fields are analytical summaries, not quotations.

Project summary of the coroner's concern

Restricted access and incomplete electronic recording created future risk in mental-health follow-up

Requested action

Dorset Healthcare University NHS Foundation Trust to act

Digital safety characterisation

Dimension Project extraction
System or record type RiO electronic patient record
Digital function Record access, documentation and referral tracking
Failure mode Staff had only partial RiO access and material contacts or referral actions were not reliably entered and visible
Human-factors issue Partial access created a misleadingly incomplete picture for subsequent users
Workflow issue No closed-loop referral workflow confirmed receipt, ownership and action
Information issue The record did not expose a complete chronology of assessment and referral

Downstream Defence trace

No canonical candidate Defence requirement currently cites this report. This does not imply that the mechanism is irrelevant; any mapping must be added and qualified in the controlled requirements register.

The included-case dataset preserves early legacy_military_relevance and legacy_derived_requirement fields for audit history. They are not published here as requirements and must not override the canonical REQ register. New report rows do not need to populate them.