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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 2026-0083
Registered primary source SRC-001
Report date 2026-02-06
Coroner area Black Country
Clinical setting Primary care/laboratory
Care transition Laboratory to GP
Primary workflow group Diagnostic results and investigations
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 Laboratory, radiology or diagnostic service, Primary care
Information or work-item origin Laboratory, radiology or diagnostic service
Origin care context(s) Diagnostic service
Expected action destination Primary care
Destination care context(s) Primary care
Directional pathway Laboratory, radiology or diagnostic service → Primary care
Care-setting span Multiple care settings
Sector boundary Health services only
Failure point Multiple points
Classification confidence high

Classification note: The laboratory result and action advice originated in diagnostics; missing abnormal-result salience and the receiving GP filing workflow both contributed to the information failure.

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-018
Non-exclusive mechanism codes VIS, LOOP, HF, ALERT, GOV

Qualification recorded in the dataset: Report suggests coupled design/workload hazard; does not isolate interface causation

“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

Result scrutiny and national laboratory-flagging guidance should be reviewed

Requested action

NHS England and GP practice to act

Digital safety characterisation

Dimension Project extraction
System or record type Laboratory report and GP record
Digital function Results
Failure mode Markedly abnormal result and urgent advice were filed without action
Human-factors issue Abnormality not prominent on first page or in red; high-volume review
Workflow issue Filing did not demonstrate clinical completion
Information issue Present but insufficiently salient

Downstream Defence trace

Canonical candidate requirements that cite this report: REQ-004, REQ-005, 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.