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First report 15 Aug 2023•Latest report 15 Aug 2023

Reports, concerns and published responses

Reports over time

Reports naming this recipient by issue year.

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Reports
1

Naming this recipient

Published responses
100%

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Concerns addressed
1

Across all linked responses

Stated actions
2

Described in responses

Concerns and recipient responses

Statements from Urgent Health UK Limited linked to the concerns in each report. Select any concern, action or position to view the source wording.

  1. Milton Keynes

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    Leonard Jomo Isaac KING · Prevention of Future Deaths report

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    Report summary

    Leonard Jomo Isaac King died at Milton Keynes University Hospital on 4 May 2022 following a hypoxic cardiac arrest caused by airway obstruction from epiglottitis. The report identified concerns that adult epiglottitis may be mistaken for a sore throat or tonsillitis, and that there were missed opportunities to recognise and escalate his condition and transfer him to an emergency department.

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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. The report was sent to Urgent Health UK Limited; that does not assign responsibility.

    PFD Monitor interpretation

    Failure to recognise epiglottitis in adults

    Wider context from the report

    “Subsequent to mass immunisation the demographic has changed and more adults are developing epiglottitis. It is not common in this group but because of the expectation among clinicians that it is a still a disease of children, there is a tendency, except in those routinely dealing with acute emergencies of the airways, to regard typical symptoms as those of a sore throat or tonsillitis and not as the harbinger of sudden catastrophic obstructive epiglottitis. The disease classically develops rapidly in children but in adults may take several days which may be falsely reassuring. Typical symptoms may include a sore throat which becomes more severe with time, difficulty swallowing secretions, pain on swallowing and an alteration in voice. Prompt recognition and treatment is lifesaving. ”
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    How this respondent action was interpreted

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

    PFD Monitor interpretation

    Arrange distribution of the Regulation 28 Report to Medical and Nurse Directors across UHUK’s 30 member organisations.

    Verbatim wording from the response

    “Thank you for the Regulation 28 Report. On behalf of Conor Burke CEO UHUK, I have arranged for all Medical Directors and Nurse Directors of our 30 members to receive a copy of the Report and asked them to distribute it to their front line clinicians using their standard communication mechanisms (attached emails). These clinicians provide care to 65% of the UK population. In addition the report will be reviewed and discussed at the Medical Directors and Nurse Directors Teams Meeting to be held on 18th September 2023, 1-2pm.”

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    Published 6 September 2023

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