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Inquests and inquiries

This is the companion podcast to two websites. The first is about the use of risk analysis in emergency planning and intelligence. The second is to increase understanding about the causes of disasters and loss of life by making it easier to access information on them. This can be from inquests, inquiries or other forms of investigation.The channel will use a mix of interviews, case studies and even some experiments with AI podcasters!The channel logo is a sinking black swan. The concept being that work on better understanding of disasters should allow us to ’sink’ black swan events, especially where they were potentially avoidable or not as unknown as we thought.

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    The final report of the Dawn Sturgess inquiry

    This is a podcast analysing the findings of the final report to the Dawn Sturgess inquiry.  There is a companion webpage with resources here: Dawn Sturgess Inquiry | Inquests & Inquiries There is also a video explainer here https://youtu.be/5NO9ZO8zUM0 The government inquiry page is The Dawn Sturgess Inquiry – Inquiry into 2018 Salisbury poisonings And the full website of the project that created this is: Inquests and Inquiries | Emergency planning 

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    Responses of UK nations to the Covid inquiry

    This is an analysis by AI of the reports and letters produced by the devolved administrations, following the report of module 1 of the UK Covid 19 inquiry. It is intended to see how well the AI forecasts the findings in module 2, which will be the next podcast!  It is an AI episode, with a human introduction and then analysis of the documents by the AI podcasters. There are additional resources and the reports available here: UK Covid-19 Inquiry | Inquests & Inquiries This is a series with a companion website: Inquests and inquiries and associated youtube - with a specific companion video here https://youtu.be/5jIif0bbkvc  www.youtube.com/@inquestsandinquiries

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    The Brook House Inquiry

    My site Inquests and Inquiries | Emergency planning  The Inquests and Inquiries Brook House inquiry page Brook house | Inquests & Inquiries This episode examines the investigation in to abuse at the Brook House detention centre.

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    Vale of Leven C difficile infection inquiry

    My site Inquests and Inquiries | Emergency planning  The Inquests and Inquiries inquiry page Vale of Leven Hospital | Inquests & Inquiries   This episode examines the outbreak of Clostridium difficile infection between 2007 and 2008 at the Vale of Leven hospital in Scotland and the subsequent inquiry and government response. 

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    Understanding the Salisbury Nerve Agent Inquiry

      My site Inquests and Inquiries | Emergency planning  The Inquests and Inquiries Dawn Sturgess inquiry page Dawn Sturgess Inquiry | Inquests & Inquiries   The government inquiry page is The Dawn Sturgess Inquiry – Inquiry into 2018 Salisbury poisonings and the document used to train the AI is https://dsiweb-prod.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/uploads/INQ000612_Part-1-Page-1-132.pdf   It is just the first of multiple packets of evidence as a test, but it produced an interesting result.

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    The Redfern Inquiry - The human tissue scandal

    This episode uses examines the Redfern Inquiry. The Redfern Inquiry investigated the removal and analysis of organs from deceased nuclear workers in the UK between 1961 and 1992, and examined the legal and ethical problems with it. It is often considered alongside the tissue sampling of Miners and presumptions of consent with may have gone beyond the deceased and the family's wishes. The documents and more information is available on the companion website below. My site Inquests and Inquiries | Emergency planning  The Inquests and Inquiries Redfern inquiry page Redfern | Inquests & Inquiries  

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    UK Covid 19 inquiry module 1 - Initial thoughts and response

    This episode discusses the report from the first module of the Covid 19 inquiry and the government response. It is supported by a full page UK Covid-19 Inquiry | Inquests & Inquiries which has additional videos, resources and links to download the report and the response.    

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    Maternity and perinatal care and mortality

    This episode uses almost 60 reports over 20 years to train an LLM and ask the podcasters to answer three questions:   What does this all mean for a non-medical professional? Are things getting better? What are the trends?   My site Inquests and Inquiries | Emergency planning  National Maternity and Neonatal Recommendations Register - Home National Maternity and Neonatal Recommendations Register - Published Reports Bulk download of all reports

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    UK train accident inquiries: a comparison

    This is an analysis of the causes and contributing factors, themselves identified from three train inquiries The Southall Rail Accident inquiry can be found here: HSE_Southall1997.pdf and the excellent Railway archives have a full page about it here The Southall Rail Accident Inquiry Report :: The Railways Archive Ladbroke Grove Ladbroke-Grove-Rail-Inquiry-Report-Part-1.pdf Ladbroke Grove Rail Inquiry Report Part 2 Clapham Junction Investigation into the Clapham Junction Railway Accident :: The Railways Archive   This is a series with a companion website: Inquests and inquiries www.youtube.com/@inquestsandinquiries

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    The Manchester Arena attack

    This is an analysis requested by listeners, looking at the Inquiry report and the Kerslake report.  It is an AI episode, with a human introduction and then analysis of the documents by the AI podcasters. The Kerslake report is here the-kerslake-report.pdf The Manchester Arena attack inquiry reports are here Manchester Arena Inquiry reports - GOV.UK with the archived inquiry site here [ARCHIVED CONTENT] About – Manchester Arena Inquests This is a series with a companion website: Inquests and inquiries   www.youtube.com/@inquestsandinquiries

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    UK Flooding lessons

    Episode 6 is an exploration of 3 documents on flooding inquiries and incidents in the United Kingdom.   The discussion, after an initial introduction, is entirely by two AI presenters and their discussion is the result of analysis of the documents by a large language model.  This is a series with a companion website: Inquests and inquiries The specific referenced sources are below: The sources uploaded are: https://www.jesip.org.uk/downloads/boscastle-floods-debrief-report/ https://www.jesip.org.uk/downloads/carlisle-flood-report/ https://www.jesip.org.uk/downloads/hull-floods-june-2007-report/ www.youtube.com/@inquestsandinquiries

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    The Southall Rail Accident

    This is an analysis of the causes and contributing factors, themselves identified within the inquiry into the sad events of the Southall Rail Accident.  The Southall Rail Accident inquiry can be found here: HSE_Southall1997.pdf and the excellent Railway archives have a full page about it here The Southall Rail Accident Inquiry Report :: The Railways Archive This is a series with a companion website: Inquests and inquiries www.youtube.com/@inquestsandinquiries    

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    The Francis (Mid-staffs) inquiry and responses

    This episode examines the Mid-Staffordshire NHS inquiry and response. The discussion, after an initial introduction, is entirely by two AI presenters and their discussion is the result of analysis of the documents by a large language model.  This is a series with a companion website: Inquests and inquiries The specific companion page is: Berwick_report_Health | Inquests and inquiries This contains other podcasts, downloads, videos and links on the topic. www.youtube.com/@inquestsandinquiries

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    The Hixon Level Crossing Accident

    Episode 3 is an analysis of the Hixon level crossing accident, based on the report of the public inquiry in to the accident at Hixon Level Crossing on January 6th, 1968.     The discussion, after an initial introduction, is entirely by two AI presenters and their discussion is the result of analysis of the documents by a large language model.  This is a series with a companion website: Inquests and inquiries   The Hixon level crossing inquiry can be found here.MoT_Hixon1968.pdf   www.youtube.com/@inquestsandinquiries

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    Health inquiries in the UK: An AI episode

    Episode 2 is an exploration of 36 documents on health inquiries and incidents in the United Kingdom and NHS. The discussion, after an initial introduction, is entirely by two AI presenters and their discussion is the result of analysis of the documents by a large language model.  This is a series with a companion website: Inquests and inquiries The specific referenced sources are below and can be downloaded from here The sources uploaded are: "A National Response to Winterbourne View Hospital Impact Assessment.pdf" "Gosport Inquiry.pdf" "Government response to medicine and medical device safety review.pdf" "Liverpool Community Health report.pdf" "Morecombe Bay investigation.pdf" "Responses to Francis report.pdf" "Volume 1 Contaminated blood scandal report.pdf" "Volume 3 Contaminated blood scandal report.pdf" "Volume 4 Contaminated blood scandal report.pdf" "Volume 5 Contaminated blood scandal report.pdf" "Volume 6 Contaminated blood scandal report.pdf" "Volume 7 Contaminated blood scandal report.pdf" "Winterbourne View good practice examples.pdf" "Winterbourne View report.pdf" "maternity and neonatal services in east kent report.pdf" "ockenden report.pdf" "paterson independent inquiry.pdf"   www.youtube.com/@inquestsandinquiries  

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    Inquests and Inquiries - an introduction

    Just a short introduction to the series. This series will look at case studies, inquiries, inquests and investigations from around the world. The aim is to help people learn from tragedy and ensure that lessons identified from disaster are not repeated. This is a series with a companion website: Inquests and inquiries And also a companion youtube channel: www.youtube.com/@inquestsandinquiries

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

This is the companion podcast to two websites. The first is about the use of risk analysis in emergency planning and intelligence. The second is to increase understanding about the causes of disasters and loss of life by making it easier to access information on them. This can be from inquests, inquiries or other forms of investigation.The channel will use a mix of interviews, case studies and even some experiments with AI podcasters!The channel logo is a sinking black swan. The concept being that work on better understanding of disasters should allow us to ’sink’ black swan events, especially where they were potentially avoidable or not as unknown as we thought.

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S Johnson

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This is the companion podcast to two websites. The first is about the use of risk analysis in emergency planning and intelligence. The second is to increase understanding about the causes of disasters and loss of life by making it easier to access information on them. This can be from inquests,...

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