Investigation reports

A Health Trust has apologised for the care and treatment given to a patient in the Emergency Department of the Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast.

The Public Services Ombudsman has upheld a complaint from a woman who waited 20 months to have a carer's assessment carried out by the Western Health and Social Care Trust.

An investigation 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.

We investigated a complaint about the Trust's record keeping following the birth of the complainant's son.

The Belfast Health and Social Care Trust has apologized to a patient who was forced to arrange her own care package after being discharged from the Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast.

An investigation has concluded that the care plans prepared for a resident of a nursing home in Armagh were largely adequate, but that it had underestimated the resident’s risk of a fall, and that it was inconsistent in its assessment of his mental state.

The Belfast Health and Social Care Trust has apologised to a complainant for the care and treatment her mother received while a patient in the Mater Hospital.

An investigation into a man’s complaint has found that the conditions on a hospital ward did not cause his wife to contract pneumonia.