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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 2023-0038
Registered primary source SRC-061
Report date 2023-02-01
Coroner area Berkshire
Clinical setting Primary care/radiology surveillance
Care transition Private imaging to GP and longitudinal follow-up
Primary workflow group Screening and longitudinal surveillance
Primary browsing context Primary and community 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 Primary care
Information or work-item origin Primary care
Origin care context(s) Primary care
Expected action destination Primary care
Destination care context(s) Primary care
Directional pathway Primary care → Primary care
Care-setting span One care setting
Sector boundary Health services only
Failure point Receiving or action service
Classification confidence high

Classification note: Private imaging supplied the antecedent surveillance recommendation, but the coded digital safety issue arose after it had reached the GP record: EMIS could store the future diary entry but did not surface it as an owned arbitrary follow-up task. Origin and destination are therefore coded to primary care; the private imaging is contextual antecedent.

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 No official response located
Registered response sources None registered for this row
Non-exclusive mechanism codes VIS, LOOP, ALERT, IDPOP, HF, GOV

Qualification recorded in the dataset: Follow-up occurred; the inquest did not identify the EMIS task gap as causal. No official response was located

“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

The coroner warned that patients could become lost to necessary follow-up because EMIS lacked the described scheduled-task capability

Requested action

EMIS to take action within its power to prevent patients being lost to future investigation and surveillance

Digital safety characterisation

Dimension Project extraction
System or record type EMIS primary-care EHR and diary-date function
Digital function Future tasking, surveillance recall and alerting
Failure mode A future diary entry was visible only after opening the patient record and could not generate a pop-up for an arbitrary surveillance task outside an EMIS-defined list
Human-factors issue Clinicians received no proactive cue unless they independently reopened the record; safety depended on patient memory and initiative
Workflow issue No owned future task, work queue, deadline escalation or closure state supported planned surveillance
Information issue The follow-up requirement could be stored but was not operationally surfaced

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.