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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 2025-0531
Registered primary source SRC-219
Report date 2025-10-22
Coroner area Avon
Clinical setting Police, court and prison healthcare
Care transition Police and court clinical encounters to prison reception healthcare
Primary workflow group Referral, handover and transfer
Primary browsing context Secure and custodial care
Predominant information boundary Across health and non-health sectors

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 Prison, custody or secure healthcare, Police, local authority or other non-health agency
Information or work-item origin Multiple settings or services
Origin care context(s) Secure or custodial healthcare, Non-health agency
Expected action destination Prison, custody or secure healthcare
Destination care context(s) Secure or custodial healthcare
Directional pathway Multiple settings or services → Prison, custody or secure healthcare
Care-setting span Multiple care settings
Sector boundary Health and non-health sectors
Failure point Transfer or interface
Classification confidence high

Classification note: Clinical care was delivered by separate providers in police custody, court and prison; the digital escort and medical information crossed operational custody boundaries.

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; qualified extraction
Response evidence status Response evidence noted
Registered response sources SRC-282
Non-exclusive mechanism codes LOOP, GOV, INT, PROV

Qualification recorded in the dataset: The jury concluded natural causes; the report identifies the record-transfer gap as future risk rather than finding it caused death. Page metadata gives 2025-10-22 while the report is signed 2025-10-20

“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 criminal-justice healthcare pathway lacked a system for transferring essential medical information between providers

Requested action

NHS England and custodial healthcare providers to establish reliable shared clinical information transfer

Digital safety characterisation

Dimension Project extraction
System or record type Digital Person Escort Record and separate provider clinical records
Digital function Custodial transfer of medicines, observations and withdrawal state
Failure mode The escort record was not updated with medical interventions and no standard record was accessible across police, court and prison healthcare providers
Human-factors issue Each clinician assessed the patient without a complete account of medicines and observations already recorded by other providers
Workflow issue No shared or accountable handover required every provider to add and reconcile current clinical information during conveyance
Information issue Prison healthcare did not know which withdrawal medicines or observations had occurred earlier that day

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.