The family of an 82-year-old woman who died after falling from a hospital trolley has called for a review of care for elderly people in emergency departments. Letitia Lawlor had spent the night on a trolley in the emergency department of St Vincent’s Hospital in...
The jury at the inquest into the death of baby Conor Whelan at Cavan General Hospital over two years ago has returned a verdict of medical misadventure. Baby Conor died on 14 May 2014, just over 17 hours after being delivered by emergency Cesarean section. The inquest...
The jury at the inquest into the death of an 82-year-old man at Mayo General Hospital has returned a verdict of medical misadventure. Darby King sustained minor injuries in a traffic collision on 24 April 2014 but his condition deteriorated in the days that followed...
Teresa Dwyer, from Monasteraden in Co Sligo, was a patient in the rehab unit of the hospital and had been told to bang her fist or a glass on her bedside locker or to shout if she needed attention. This was because there was no call bell system in place at the...
A coroner has recorded a verdict of death by medical misadventure in the case of an 86-year-old woman who died just hours after a fall at a respite home where there was no proper emergency call system in place. A doctor wasn’t called to treat Theresa Dwyer at St...
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