Investigation reports

The Belfast Trust did not provide appropriate reassurance to an elderly patient when she suffered pain and discomfort after her coronary angiogram.

A woman complained that her late sister should have received better care on the night she was admitted to hospital.  We found that, for the most part, her treatment was appropriate.

The Western Trust’s failure to give a patient an MRI test caused her to experience prolonged pain and unnecessarily delayed treatment of her endometriosis.

A woman complained that her IVF treatment failed because the Belfast Trust’s fertility clinic failed to monitor her progesterone levels. Our investigation did not identify any failings.

The Northern Trust should have told a patient and his family that he would not be resuscitated if his heart or breathing stopped. 

A woman complained that doctors did not do enough to monitor and investigate her father’s condition prior to his death.

A woman believed that the Western Trust should not have left it to her family to arrange palliative care for her elderly mother.

A patient complained he was uncomfortable after he was fitted with a catheter following surgery.  We found no failings in his care and treatment.

A woman claimed that if her late husband’s weight loss been investigated properly his cancer may have been detected sooner. 

We found it was a ‘significant failure in care and treatment’ that his GP didn’t send him for further diagnostic treatment.

A man complained that an MRI scan carried out by the Belfast Trust failed to identify the cause of his back pain. 

We did not uphold the complaint.