Investigation reports

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

A complainant raised concerns about how the Southern Trust cared for her vulnerable sister.  

Our investigation found a number of failings by the Trust.  

A man with Crohn’s Disease asked the Southern Trust to provide him with an additional bedroom and bathroom.

We found the Trust’s decision to only approve a new bathroom was appropriate.

A woman complained about the Southern Trust’s decision to make her late sister’s estate liable for unpaid nursing costs.

Our investigation found that the communication between clinicians caring for a patient in Craigavon Area Hospital was inadequate, and that a series of other failures contributed towards his untimely death.

We found failures in the care provided by the Southern Trust to an elderly woman and her daughter.