Investigation reports

The daughter of an elderly cancer patient complained that her syringe driver was removed in the days before her death, causing her to experience unnecessary pain.

This investigation found that the system for communicating with patients on healthcare waiting lists is in ‘disarray’, and concluded that significant and repeated failures across the system amounted to ‘systemic maladministration’.

It urged the Department of Health to work with Health Trusts, GPs and others to address the failings.

A report has made recommendations to the Northern Ireland Hospice after an investigation found that a number of failures meant a meant a patient in receipt of community palliative nursing did not receive the end of life care she needed.