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Kiefer Fraser-Phillips

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 2026-0216
Registered primary source SRC-185
Report date 2026-04-14
Coroner area Birmingham and Solihull
Clinical setting Mental-health inpatient care
Care transition Therapeutic observation to contemporaneous ward record
Primary workflow group Triage, observations and decision support
Primary browsing context Mental health care
Predominant information boundary Within a care setting

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 Inpatient or secure mental-health care
Information or work-item origin Inpatient or secure mental-health care
Origin care context(s) Secondary care
Expected action destination Inpatient or secure mental-health care
Destination care context(s) Secondary care
Directional pathway Inpatient or secure mental-health care → Inpatient or secure mental-health care
Care-setting span One care setting
Sector boundary Health services only
Failure point Originating service
Classification confidence high

Classification note: Observations arose and were used on one inpatient mental-health ward; the failure occurred when creating the contemporaneous electronic record.

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-227
Non-exclusive mechanism codes GOV, HF, PROV, RES

Qualification recorded in the dataset: The death was recorded as sudden unexplained death in schizophrenia; the report presents observation-recording resilience as a future risk rather than a causal finding. The Judiciary page says 2026-04-14 while the embedded PFD is signed 2026-04-15.

“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

Connectivity failure created a risk that observations would not be recorded accurately and effectively

Requested action

Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust to address recording resilience and physical-health care planning

Digital safety characterisation

Dimension Project extraction
System or record type Wireless electronic observation device
Digital function Bedside observation recording
Failure mode The device lost Wi-Fi and observations could not be entered until staff returned to the ward office
Human-factors issue A mobile workflow depended on coverage unavailable at the point of care
Workflow issue No resilient contemporaneous recording path existed during connectivity loss
Information issue Observation timing and content could be recorded later rather than at the point of care

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.