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We investigated whether an increase in a man’s prescription caused him to attend hospital the following day.

We found the Practice’s increase in the dose fell within the prescribed limits.

A man questioned why medicine ordered from Scotland to treat his sick wife took two weeks to arrive.  We found that the Belfast Trust’s efforts to procure and transport the medicine were reasonable and appropriate.

We asked Mid and East Antrim Council to apologise to a man for failures in the way it dealt with a planning application.

An investigation has found that the overall care and treatment provided by a private hospital to a patient who had a suspected ovarian cyst was appropriate and reasonable. The patient was treated there as a result of a waiting list initiative by the South Eastern Health and Social Care Trust.20

A patient in a medical practice complained that her eye infection should have been examined by a GP rather than a nurse. We found that the examination was appropriate, but that a GP should have seen the patient following her request.

A patient who attended Craigavon Area Hospital due to pain in his shoulder and loss of power in his right arm received an appropriate level of care, according to an investigation carried out by the Ombudsman.