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Samuel Jordan

2024-0056
Prevention of Future Deaths Report

Coroner

Coroner's area

Date of report

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Nicholas Rheinberg

County of Devon, Plymouth and Torbay

2 February 2024

Report recipients

Healthcare staff in prison setting (inc MH)

Any other nationally commissioned/provided NHS service

"During the four months before his imprisonment, Samuel Jordan had been receiving treatment for severe anxiety while registered as a temporary patient with a medical practice in Launceston, Cornwall. Samuel had come to Cornwall from his home in Whitchurch, Hampshire where he was registered with another GP practice. On entering HMP Exeter, the prison Healthcare obtained a summary of Samuel’s GP records from Hampshire via the NHS spine. The records from the Launceston practice were not sent to the prison since the NHS spine only operates to transmit records from the permanent GP practice and not a practice consulted on a temporary basis. As a result, Exeter Prison Healthcare was unaware of Samuel’s mental health issues immediately before coming to Prison and was unaware of a current medication prescription lack of which the jury found contributed to Samuel’s death."

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