Gareth WILLIAMS · Prevention of Future Deaths report

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Issued 31 Aug 2022•Gwent

Published report and response evidence

This report’s concerns and statements found in recipients’ published responses. Statements are included even where no link to an individual concern is recorded. A link shows an evidence connection; it does not assign responsibility.

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Concerns
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Recipients
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Responses found
1

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Stated actions
2

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Concerns and recipient responses

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Concerns raised2

  1. Failure to establish clear ownership of care between mental health and ENT teams
    Part of recurring concern: Failure to integrate mental health services across care settingsPart of recurring concern: Failure to provide continuity of patient carePart of recurring concern: Insufficient multi-disciplinary coordination in mental health care
  2. Failure of direct communication between mental health and ENT teams
    Part of recurring concern: Unreliable inter-specialty communication for complex patient care

Stated actions An action is something a recipient says it has done, is doing, or plans to do in response to a concern raised.2

  1. Aneurin Bevan University LHB

    Map existing services to support appropriate pathway allocation for people referred to the expanded Adferiad service.

  2. Aneurin Bevan University LHB

    Expand Adferiad through recurrent funding, broader eligibility and a multidisciplinary team providing assessment, care planning and rehabilitation expertise.

Source evidence

How this individual concern was interpreted

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PFD Monitor interpretation

Failure to establish clear ownership of care between mental health and ENT teams

Wider context from the report

“Gareth Williams found himself in a no-win situation. His mental health could not be improved without a resolution to his hearing problems and his tinnitus was untreatable. During the course of his treatment, Gareth was regularly transferred back to the “other” team, being told that either mental health or ENT was the most appropriate speciality. I found that Gareth was left without sufficient support, falling between 2 teams, who did not directly communicate with each other. ”

Is this part of a recurring concern?

Yes — Failure to integrate mental health services across care settings; Failure to provide continuity of patient care; Insufficient multi-disciplinary coordination in mental health care.

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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. Response links show a clear evidence connection; they do not assign responsibility.

PFD Monitor interpretation

Failure of direct communication between mental health and ENT teams

Wider context from the report

“Gareth Williams found himself in a no-win situation. His mental health could not be improved without a resolution to his hearing problems and his tinnitus was untreatable. During the course of his treatment, Gareth was regularly transferred back to the “other” team, being told that either mental health or ENT was the most appropriate speciality. I found that Gareth was left without sufficient support, falling between 2 teams, who did not directly communicate with each other. ”

Is this part of a recurring concern?

Yes — Unreliable inter-specialty communication for complex patient care.

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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

Map existing services to support appropriate pathway allocation for people referred to the expanded Adferiad service.

Verbatim wording from the response

“I am pleased to share that Welsh Government has confirmed that a Health Board service - ‘Adferiad’ - originally developed for people experiencing the effects of ‘Long Covid’ will be receiving substantive, recurrent funding from April 2023 which will also allow it to broaden its inclusion criteria to people with other medical and long-term conditions for whom there are no existing care pathways. This service will be delivered by a team of medical, nursing and Allied Health Professionals – including Health and Clinical Psychologists, thus offering a multi-disciplinary perspective from the point of referral and for consultation to other disciplines & specialties. Part of the expansion of the service will be to map existing services to ensure the person is on the ‘right’ pathway, with a ‘bespoke’ approach to each person’s needs.”

Source location

Response from Aneurin Bevan University Health Board
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Published 4 October 2022

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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

Expand Adferiad through recurrent funding, broader eligibility and a multidisciplinary team providing assessment, care planning and rehabilitation expertise.

Verbatim wording from the response

“I am pleased to share that Welsh Government has confirmed that a Health Board service - ‘Adferiad’ - originally developed for people experiencing the effects of ‘Long Covid’ will be receiving substantive, recurrent funding from April 2023 which will also allow it to broaden its inclusion criteria to people with other medical and long-term conditions for whom there are no existing care pathways. This service will be delivered by a team of medical, nursing and Allied Health Professionals – including Health and Clinical Psychologists, thus offering a multi-disciplinary perspective from the point of referral and for consultation to other disciplines & specialties. Part of the expansion of the service will be to map existing services to ensure the person is on the ‘right’ pathway, with a ‘bespoke’ approach to each person’s needs.”

Source location

Response from Aneurin Bevan University Health Board
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Published 4 October 2022

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