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sentences that state something as happening or true
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0 of 17 hedged
("reportedly", "may", "according to")
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An investigation found several failures in the care provided by the Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust, which serves 14 London boroughs including Brent, Hillingdon, Westminster and Kingston as well as Hertfordshire.
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which → find → Brent
The woman, who has been kept anonymous, was a known diabetic attending the podiatry service since 2015.
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who → keep → 2015
She attended her local Podiatry Team in severe pain with a blackened toenail with an ulcer underneath on January 16 last year.
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She → attend → January
A section of her toenail was removed and the patient was prescribed antibiotics by her GP.
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patient → remove → GP
However her pain worsened and circulation to her toe deteriorated until it became gangrenous.
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it → worsen → toe
The patient and her daughter visited the podiatry service multiple times where she complained about being in “excruciating” pain.
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she → visit → pain
The patient is now living with ongoing pain, waiting for her toe to either ‘self-amputate’ - fall off on its own - or to be surgically removed.
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toe → live → own
What went wrong?
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What → go → ?
A Patient Safety Incident Investigation found that no assessment was carried out to check if there was enough blood flow to the toe to safely perform surgery.
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assessment → find → surgery
The team also went ahead with the procedure without conducting a preoperative assessment or getting written consent.
“This investigation found that the patient experienced harm due to missed opportunities to recognise and act on worsening blood flow to the foot,” reads the report.
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report → go → foot
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“Although the patient had diabetes and a history of vascular risk factors, key assessments were not completed or documented at critical points, particularly when the patient presented with severe pain, colour change, and ulceration of the right big toe.”
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patient → read → toe
The patient and her daughter reported feeling “distressed, unheard and uncertain” that their concerns were being taken seriously.
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concerns → report → ?
Further issues were identified, such as failure to review her diabetic foot classification, failure to escalate to specialist vascular services, incomplete and inconsistent clinical paperwork and problems with the clinical environment.
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issues → identify → environment
“These failures contributed to a delay in identifying the severity of peripheral arterial disease, leading to chronic limb-threatening ischaemia, gangrene of the toe, and the need for urgent hospital treatment,” the report adds.
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report → contribute → treatment
A spokesperson for the trust said: “The incident took place in January 2025.
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incident → say → January
In response, we introduced mandatory pre-surgery assessments, strengthened our procedures to ensure concerns are escalated promptly, and enhanced training and competency checks for all podiatrists to improve patient safety.
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concerns → introduce → safety
“Discussions took place with the patient and their family and we offered our sincere apologies.”
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we → take → apologies
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