• The final report of the Dawn Sturgess inquiry
    Dec 6 2025

    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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    16 mins
  • Responses of UK nations to the Covid inquiry
    Nov 22 2025

    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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    18 mins
  • The Brook House Inquiry
    May 11 2025

    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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    16 mins
  • Vale of Leven C difficile infection inquiry
    Apr 26 2025

    My site Inquests and Inquiries | Emergency planning

    The Inquests and Inquiries Dawn Sturgess inquiry page Vale of Leven Hospital | Inquests & Inquiries

    This episode examines the outbreak of Clostridium difficile infection between 2007 and 2008 at teh Vale of Leven hospital in Scotland and the subsequent inquiry and government response.

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    20 mins
  • Understanding the Salisbury Nerve Agent Inquiry
    Feb 23 2025

    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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    16 mins
  • The Redfern Inquiry - The human tissue scandal
    Feb 16 2025

    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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    18 mins
  • UK Covid 19 inquiry module 1 - Initial thoughts and response
    Feb 8 2025

    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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    22 mins
  • Maternity and perinatal care and mortality
    Feb 2 2025

    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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    28 mins