Recurring concern

Failure to include material information in formal statements

First to latest report 6 Mar 2015 — 14 Nov 2022

Reports that mention this concern
5
Times this concern has been raised
5
Stated actions linked to this concern
1

What this concern includes

Includes failures in preparing, reviewing or serving formal police, clinical, care or organisational statements used for prosecution, investigation or inquest purposes where material factual, clinical or evidential information is omitted or not reliably included.

What is not included
  • Excludes general clinical, care or incident-record deficiencies where the problem is not omission from a formal statement used in a prosecution, investigation or inquest.
  • Excludes failures to disclose or transmit a complete statement after the statement itself was accurately prepared; those concern disclosure or transfer rather than statement content.
  • Excludes poor-quality statements where the issue is only style, recollection or lack of detail and no material omission affecting safety, investigation or proceedings is identified.
  • Excludes failures in the underlying prosecution, clinical care or incident investigation when the formal statement itself is not deficient.

Reports and published responses 5 reports

See individual reports that have raised this concern, and the actions taken in response

  1. East London

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    Ghulam Mohammad · Prevention of Future Deaths report

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    Report summary

    Ghulam Mohammad, an 89-year-old man, was admitted to hospital after an unwitnessed fall and later sustained a head injury in a further hospital fall. His CT head was delayed for four days, and enoxaparin was prescribed and administered before the extent of any intracranial injury was known. The report also identifies inadequate record keeping and omissions in the initial investigation and consultant statement concerning the use of enoxaparin.

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    Source evidence

    How this individual concern was interpreted

    PFD Monitor created a concise, searchable interpretation from the report wording shown below.

    PFD Monitor interpretation

    Failure of investigation and inquest reporting to identify enoxaparin use and missing clinical justification

    Wider context from the report

    “5. Neither the Trust’s initial investigation nor the consultant statement to the inquest mentioned the use of enoxaparin or the lack of clinical records justifying its use. ”

    Source location

    Ghulam Mohammad · Prevention of Future Deaths report
    Page 2 · concerns

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  2. Inner North London

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    Jeroen ENSINK · Prevention of Future Deaths report

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    Report summary

    Dr Jeroen Ensink was stabbed to death in a wholly unprovoked attack on 29 December 2015. The report identified multiple concerns involving police recording and information-sharing failures, including failures to identify and communicate possible mental health problems and issues in the handling of evidence and custody records.

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    Source evidence

    How this individual concern was interpreted

    PFD Monitor created a concise, searchable interpretation from the report wording shown below.

    PFD Monitor interpretation

    Omission of material information from prosecution statements

    Wider context from the report

    “2. Police officers at the scene of ████████ arrest took a statement in support of the prosecution of the offence of possession of a bladed article in a public place. However, they missed out a line from the statement that the CPS considered was vital to demonstrating ████████ location when he had the knife. This omission was rectified only months later. ”

    Source location

    Jeroen ENSINK · Prevention of Future Deaths report
    Page 2 · concerns

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  3. Preston and West Lancashire

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    Michael John NEWELL · Prevention of Future Deaths report

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    Report summary

    Michael John Newell died following an admission involving haemorrhage, decompensated liver failure and associated coagulopathy. Concerns included a lack of awareness among emergency and surgical staff of the significance of his liver failure, inadequate recognition and treatment of hypovolaemia, lack of consultant ENT input, weaknesses in the mortality review process, and nursing documentation and management issues.

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    Source evidence

    How this individual concern was interpreted

    PFD Monitor created a concise, searchable interpretation from the report wording shown below.

    PFD Monitor interpretation

    Failure to disclose relevant clinical care issues in the ENT consultant's statement

    Wider context from the report

    “(3) there was a worrying lack by the ENT surgeons to realise the complexity of the case due to the ongoing haemorrhage, decompensated liver failure and associated coagulopathy, that there were no base of skull fractures and to select a method of treatment with Rapid Rhino Pack's that in the view of the ENT expert was only appropriate as a first-line measure and not for facial fractures. Firstly, there was no consultant ENT input into Mr Newell's case at any point prior to his death. Secondly, none of the above issues were brought to the attention of the Court in the ENT consultant's statement raising issues within the Trust for improving patient care. ”

    Source location

    Michael John NEWELL · Prevention of Future Deaths report
    Page 1 · concerns

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  4. Nottinghamshire

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    Sheila Stokes · Prevention of Future Deaths report

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    Report summary

    Sheila Stokes had a large abdominal aortic aneurysm diagnosed in July 2015 and died at home on 26 January 2016 after it ruptured. The report identified delays in arranging appointments, acting on the radiology alert, discussing the case, and sending information needed for a custom-made graft. It also raised concerns about administrative systems, communication, the trust’s investigation, and the completeness of statements provided to the coroner.

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    Source evidence

    How this individual concern was interpreted

    PFD Monitor created a concise, searchable interpretation from the report wording shown below.

    PFD Monitor interpretation

    Witness statements to the coroner omitting relevant trust delay

    Wider context from the report

    “5. Nature and content of the witness statements provided to the coroner, which again refer only to delay by the manufacturer, which is clearly not the central issue in this case. ”

    Source location

    Sheila Stokes · Prevention of Future Deaths report
    Page 3 · concerns

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    Source evidence

    How this respondent action was interpreted

    PFD Monitor created a concise, searchable interpretation from the published response wording shown below.

    PFD Monitor interpretation

    Transfer the legal team into the Governance Directorate to strengthen collaboration with the Clinical Governance Unit and support earlier identification of investigation and witness-evidence deficiencies.

    Verbatim wording from the response

    “The legal team at Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS FT is soon to be made part of the Governance Directorate, with offices adjacent. This will enable a greater working relationship between the legal team and the Clinical Governance Unit which it is expected will make matters requiring investigation clearer from the outset. Any insufficiency in witness evidence can be addressed at an earlier stage.”

    Source location

    2016-0439-Response-by-Sherwood-Forest-Hospitals-NHS-Trust
    Page 5 · response
    Published 12 February 2017

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  5. Central Lincolnshire

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    Thor Harrison Dalhaug · Prevention of Future Deaths report

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    Report summary

    Thor Dalhaug was delivered by caesarean section on 23 September 2013 in poor condition after difficulties delivering his deeply engaged head, and died approximately one hour after birth. The report identified concerns including lack of supervision of the operating surgeon, use of an inappropriate forceps technique, inadequate contemporaneous records and shortcomings in the internal investigation and disclosure of the circumstances of his death.

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    Source evidence

    How this individual concern was interpreted

    PFD Monitor created a concise, searchable interpretation from the report wording shown below.

    PFD Monitor interpretation

    Failure of statements to disclose the lack of support for forceps use to disimpact the fetal head

    Wider context from the report

    “(VIII) The fact that none of the statements served by the Trust disclosed that there was no support for the use of forceps to disimpact the fetal head. ”

    Source location

    Thor Harrison Dalhaug · Prevention of Future Deaths report
    Page 3 · concerns

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Actions and positions describe what organisations say in published responses. Implementation is not independently verified.

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Data last updated 7 September 2026