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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 2024-0656
Registered primary source SRC-042
Report date 2024-11-28
Coroner area Devon, Plymouth and Torbay
Clinical setting Primary care/pharmacy
Care transition GP to online and local pharmacy
Primary workflow group Medication and prescribing
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, Pharmacy or dispensing service
Information or work-item origin Primary care
Origin care context(s) Primary care
Expected action destination Pharmacy or dispensing service
Destination care context(s) Pharmacy
Directional pathway Primary care → Pharmacy or dispensing service
Care-setting span Multiple care settings
Sector boundary Health services only
Failure point Transfer or interface
Classification confidence high

Classification note: A GP cancellation did not reconcile prescription state after an online pharmacy had downloaded it, leaving duplicate active supply across pharmacy endpoints.

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, RES

Qualification recorded in the dataset: Strong distributed-transaction example

“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

Status should be ascertainable before a subsequent prescription is issued

Requested action

Practice, pharmacy body and online pharmacy to act

Digital safety characterisation

Dimension Project extraction
System or record type Electronic Prescription Service
Digital function Prescription cancellation
Failure mode Cancellation occurred after one pharmacy had downloaded the prescription
Human-factors issue Transaction state was not sufficiently visible before replacement issue
Workflow issue Patient was asked to remedy cross-organisation failure
Information issue Duplicate active supply across endpoints

Downstream Defence trace

Canonical candidate requirements that cite this report: REQ-011. 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.