Barrie Lewis · Prevention of Future Deaths report

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Issued 19 Feb 2015•Powys, Bridgend and Glamorgan Valleys

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
4

Raised in this report

Recipients
3

Named on the report

Responses found
1

Of 3 recipients

Stated actions
4

Described in responses

Recipients and published responses

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Concerns and recipient responses

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Concerns raised4

  1. Failure to ensure crisis team responsibility for providing assistance
    Part of recurring concern: Unreliable coordination of mental health crisis responsesPart of recurring concern: Unreliable crisis team care provision
  2. Failure to make clinical records of crisis team contact
    Part of recurring concern: Incomplete, inaccurate or unavailable clinical and care records
  3. Failure to undertake risk assessments specific to suicidal ideation
    Part of recurring concern: Inadequate mental health risk assessment

Stated actions An action is something a recipient says it has done, is doing, or plans to do in response to a concern raised.4

  1. Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Local Health Board

    Review the Care Treatment Plan Policy and Procedures used in the outpatients department.

  2. Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Local Health Board

    Improve monitoring of recording systems and processes.

  3. Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Local Health Board

    Develop a corrective action plan capturing the comprehensive response and monitoring improvement actions.

  4. Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Local Health Board

    Develop a procedure defining the role of the duty officer.

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 to ensure crisis team responsibility for providing assistance

Wider context from the report

“[BRIEF SUMMARY OF MATTERS OF CONCERN] (1) A clinical review was undertaken of the contact the deceased had with the mental health services in the days prior to his death and it was apparent from that review, and from the evidence heard that: a) That no risk assessment was undertaken to detail risks specifically associated with the deceased’s suicidal ideation which, on the evidence, would have assisted the crisis team in assessing his risk of suicide or self harm. b) There was little formal mechanism for communication between the mental health out patients department and the acute services which he accessed in the days prior to his death. c) There was no reliable system to ensure that a member of the crisis team took responsibility for providing assistance to the deceased – simply leaving the deceased to make his own telephone call to the appropriate department. d) No clinical recordings were made of the contact the deceased had with the crisis team (Crisis Resolution Home Treatment team) following his contact with them. ”

Is this part of a recurring concern?

Yes — Unreliable coordination of mental health crisis responses; Unreliable crisis team care provision.

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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 to make clinical records of crisis team contact

Wider context from the report

“[BRIEF SUMMARY OF MATTERS OF CONCERN] (1) A clinical review was undertaken of the contact the deceased had with the mental health services in the days prior to his death and it was apparent from that review, and from the evidence heard that: a) That no risk assessment was undertaken to detail risks specifically associated with the deceased’s suicidal ideation which, on the evidence, would have assisted the crisis team in assessing his risk of suicide or self harm. b) There was little formal mechanism for communication between the mental health out patients department and the acute services which he accessed in the days prior to his death. c) There was no reliable system to ensure that a member of the crisis team took responsibility for providing assistance to the deceased – simply leaving the deceased to make his own telephone call to the appropriate department. d) No clinical recordings were made of the contact the deceased had with the crisis team (Crisis Resolution Home Treatment team) following his contact with them. ”

Is this part of a recurring concern?

Yes — Incomplete, inaccurate or unavailable clinical and care 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. Response links show a clear evidence connection; they do not assign responsibility.

PFD Monitor interpretation

Failure to undertake risk assessments specific to suicidal ideation

Wider context from the report

“[BRIEF SUMMARY OF MATTERS OF CONCERN] (1) A clinical review was undertaken of the contact the deceased had with the mental health services in the days prior to his death and it was apparent from that review, and from the evidence heard that: a) That no risk assessment was undertaken to detail risks specifically associated with the deceased’s suicidal ideation which, on the evidence, would have assisted the crisis team in assessing his risk of suicide or self harm. b) There was little formal mechanism for communication between the mental health out patients department and the acute services which he accessed in the days prior to his death. c) There was no reliable system to ensure that a member of the crisis team took responsibility for providing assistance to the deceased – simply leaving the deceased to make his own telephone call to the appropriate department. d) No clinical recordings were made of the contact the deceased had with the crisis team (Crisis Resolution Home Treatment team) following his contact with them. ”

Is this part of a recurring concern?

Yes — Inadequate mental health risk assessment.

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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

Lack of a formal communication mechanism between mental health out-patient and acute services

Wider context from the report

“[BRIEF SUMMARY OF MATTERS OF CONCERN] (1) A clinical review was undertaken of the contact the deceased had with the mental health services in the days prior to his death and it was apparent from that review, and from the evidence heard that: a) That no risk assessment was undertaken to detail risks specifically associated with the deceased’s suicidal ideation which, on the evidence, would have assisted the crisis team in assessing his risk of suicide or self harm. b) There was little formal mechanism for communication between the mental health out patients department and the acute services which he accessed in the days prior to his death. c) There was no reliable system to ensure that a member of the crisis team took responsibility for providing assistance to the deceased – simply leaving the deceased to make his own telephone call to the appropriate department. d) No clinical recordings were made of the contact the deceased had with the crisis team (Crisis Resolution Home Treatment team) following his contact with them. ”

Is this part of a recurring concern?

Yes — Failure to integrate mental health services across care settings.

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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

Review the Care Treatment Plan Policy and Procedures used in the outpatients department.

Verbatim wording from the response

“2. Actions implemented”

Source location

2015-0065-Response-by-University-Health-Board
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Published 19 February 2015

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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

Improve monitoring of recording systems and processes.

Verbatim wording from the response

“2. Actions implemented”

Source location

2015-0065-Response-by-University-Health-Board
Page 1 · response
Published 19 February 2015

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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

Develop a corrective action plan capturing the comprehensive response and monitoring improvement actions.

Verbatim wording from the response

“1. Action taken to plan and monitor improvements”

Source location

2015-0065-Response-by-University-Health-Board
Page 1 · response
Published 19 February 2015

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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

Develop a procedure defining the role of the duty officer.

Verbatim wording from the response

“2. Actions implemented”

Source location

2015-0065-Response-by-University-Health-Board
Page 1 · response
Published 19 February 2015

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