Investigation reports

A woman complained about how long it took the Northern Health Trust to provide her late son with a routine test for heart disease, and about its subsequent failure to monitor his condition.

We made a number of recommendations to the Belfast Trust after we found failures in the way it treated a patient with a fractured leg. 

We concluded that delays in removing her leg cast and in monitoring her pressure sores caused sepsis and contributed significantly towards her premature death.

The Lagan Valley Hospital carried out reasonable and appropriate investigations to determine the source of a patient’s abdominal pain.

A man whose son lived in supported housing complained about the care provided by the Belfast Trust. 

We upheld his complaint.

Our investigation found failings in the care and treatment provided to a cancer patient by the Belfast Health and Social Care Trust.

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

A man said that his partner could have avoided emergency surgery had she received better treatment from the Southern Health and Social Care Trust. 

We did not uphold the complaint.