Ombudsman finds that proper care and treatment of patient by Trust ‘may have improved her chances of survival’
Date of article: 03/07/2019
Daily News of: 03/07/2019
Country: United Kingdom
- Northern Ireland
Author: Northern Ireland Ombudsman
Article language: en
An investigation by the Northern Ireland Public Services Ombudsman has found that the Northern Health and Social Care Trust failed to provide adequate care and treatment to a patient who died of multiple organ failure in the Causeway Hospital, Coleraine on 26 September 2015.
The Ombudsman, Marie Anderson, concluded that although the patient was severely ill on being admitted to the hospital, repeated failures in the care given to her meant she was not given the best possible chance of survival.