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20/06/2008
Daisy Hill Gynae Patients Recalled
Just days after it was revealed that three patients died after being infected with a 'bug' in Belfast Royal Victoria Hospital, a review of patient care is to take place in a Co Down facility.
"Failings" were discovered in the work of a senior member of staff at the Daisy Hill Hospital in Newry and the cases of more than 300 gynaecology patients at the hospital are to be examined.
Women treated at Daisy Hill will therefore receive letters informing them of the move, which the Southern Health Trust has described as "urgent".
A leading expert will carry out the review as "a matter of urgency" and the healthcare professional in question - who was employed temporarily - has been revealed as no longer working for the trust.
Trust Medical Director, Dr Patrick Loughran, said: "The decision to carry out this precautionary review follows concerns about aspects of the healthcare professional's work.
"The process will be conducted by Professor William Thompson, former Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Queen's University.
"A review of notes of just over 300 patients who were seen by the individual between January and May is currently under way. This comprehensive exercise is being conducted as a matter of urgency and is expected to take two weeks to complete."
He said that the trust would then be in a position to provide further information to patients: "We are writing to all patients whose notes are being examined as part of the review, and once the review is complete, we will write to all the women again to advise them of the outcome."
See: Royal Infection 'Contributed' To Three Deaths
(BMcC)
"Failings" were discovered in the work of a senior member of staff at the Daisy Hill Hospital in Newry and the cases of more than 300 gynaecology patients at the hospital are to be examined.
Women treated at Daisy Hill will therefore receive letters informing them of the move, which the Southern Health Trust has described as "urgent".
A leading expert will carry out the review as "a matter of urgency" and the healthcare professional in question - who was employed temporarily - has been revealed as no longer working for the trust.
Trust Medical Director, Dr Patrick Loughran, said: "The decision to carry out this precautionary review follows concerns about aspects of the healthcare professional's work.
"The process will be conducted by Professor William Thompson, former Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Queen's University.
"A review of notes of just over 300 patients who were seen by the individual between January and May is currently under way. This comprehensive exercise is being conducted as a matter of urgency and is expected to take two weeks to complete."
He said that the trust would then be in a position to provide further information to patients: "We are writing to all patients whose notes are being examined as part of the review, and once the review is complete, we will write to all the women again to advise them of the outcome."
See: Royal Infection 'Contributed' To Three Deaths
(BMcC)
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