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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 2026-0247
Registered primary source SRC-182
Report date 2026-04-27
Coroner area West Sussex, Brighton and Hove
Clinical setting Informal community-based mental-health placement
Care transition Risk and leave plan to nursing decision and observation
Primary workflow group Risk, care planning and safeguarding
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 Community mental-health care
Information or work-item origin Community mental-health care
Origin care context(s) Community care
Expected action destination Community mental-health care
Destination care context(s) Community care
Directional pathway Community mental-health care → Community mental-health care
Care-setting span One care setting
Sector boundary Health services only
Failure point Multiple points
Classification confidence medium

Classification note: The PFD expressly describes the Haven Unit as an informal community-based placement at Millview Hospital; the physical configuration is not further resolved, so it is not coded as an inpatient unit.

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-223
Non-exclusive mechanism codes LOOP, GOV, VIS, HF, ALERT, PROV

Qualification recorded in the dataset: The coroner found gross failures of basic care around record checking and leave decisions; the report raises the alert and audit design as ongoing concerns but does not isolate SystmOne as the cause. The source describes the Haven Unit as an informal community-based placement.

“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

Record checking, recording practice, SystmOne alert capability and incomplete audit left leave risk inadequately controlled

Requested action

Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust to address the identified care-planning, recording, alert and audit concerns

Digital safety characterisation

Dimension Project extraction
System or record type SystmOne case notes and observation record
Digital function Leave-restriction alerting, decision recording and observation audit
Failure mode Nurses did not read the notes or record leave decisions, alert capability for restrictions was uncertain and observations were not audited against case notes
Human-factors issue Staff unfamiliar with the patient made significant leave decisions in an informal working culture without consulting the record
Workflow issue No dependable pre-leave record check, decision documentation or reconciliation of observations against authorised leave existed
Information issue Family-accompaniment restrictions, reasons for decisions and the relationship between leave and observations were absent from the view used

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.