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We found that a pre-admission assessment for a care home resident did not accurately record her mobility, meaning that the home was ill-prepared for her arrival.

The Southern Trust should have carried out further tests on a patient to see if she was suitable for hip surgery. 

An Ombudsman investigation into a complaint that the Prison Healthcare team did not give a patient all of her medication during her stay at Hydebank Wood prison found 'no failures' in the patient's care and treatment.

We found that a patient with fibromyalgia was treated appropriately by the Northern Trust.

Although the Trust failed to keep proper records of her treatment, we did not consider this impacted on her care.

A woman claimed that her daughter’s development was held back by the South Eastern Trust. We upheld parts of the complaint, finding that the Trust's failings led to a loss of opportunity for the child and caused her mother upset and distress. 

We found the Belfast Trust’s failure to ensure a patient was fit for surgery, and to consider other forms of treatment for his cancer, may have led to his untimely death.

A complainant believed that the surgery she received in Craigavon Area Hospital caused her injury and led to ongoing symptoms which were not properly treated.

We investigated a complaint that the Belfast Trust failed to identify and treat a physical cause for a patient's symptoms which developed after surgery to remove her thyroid.

A patient claimed that she wasn't assessed properly while in the Royal Victoria Hospital Belfast and that the Trust tried to discharge her prematurely without any treatment.