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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 2023-0067
Registered primary source SRC-002
Report date 2023-02-17
Coroner area Newcastle upon Tyne and North Tyneside
Clinical setting Primary care/screening
Care transition National programme to GP
Primary workflow group Screening and longitudinal surveillance
Primary browsing context Primary and community care
Predominant information boundary National-to-local information flow

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 National programme or service, Primary care
Information or work-item origin National programme or service
Origin care context(s) National programme or service
Expected action destination Primary care
Destination care context(s) Primary care
Directional pathway National programme or service → Primary care
Care-setting span One care setting
Sector boundary Health services only
Failure point Transfer or interface
Classification confidence high

Classification note: National screening non-responder status was not supplied to GP systems as computable data, leaving the local warning dependent on manual entry.

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 Response evidence noted
Registered response sources SRC-016, SRC-076, SRC-077, SRC-078
Non-exclusive mechanism codes IDPOP, ALERT, LOOP, INT, GOV

Qualification recorded in the dataset: Vendor responses say due/outstanding smear alerts existed; the missing input was non-responder status

“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

Automatic non-responder warning could standardise practice and improve safety

Requested action

Vendors, NHS Digital and government to act

Digital safety characterisation

Dimension Project extraction
System or record type National Screening Service feed, EMIS and SystmOne
Digital function Screening recall
Failure mode National Screening Service non-responder status was not automatically supplied as computable data; a warning depended on manual entry
Human-factors issue Non-response status remained operationally inconspicuous despite existing due/outstanding smear alerts
Workflow issue Safety net depended on manual local entry
Information issue Missing non-responder status feed

Downstream Defence trace

Canonical candidate requirements that cite this report: REQ-001, REQ-002, REQ-009. These links are analytical translations and do not make the requirement a coronial recommendation or a validated Defence control.

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.