Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 7 April 2004
68 Mr. Quinn asked the Minister for Health and Children when he expects to receive the report of the independent review into the circumstances of the death of a person (details supplied) on 1 July 2003 who was sent home due to a shortage of nurses in the intensive care unit at Our Lady’s Hospital for Sick Children, Crumlin. [10791/04]
Amharc ar fhreagraOn 23 July 2003 I announced that I had convened a review panel to conduct an independent review of the events surrounding the tragic death of the person concerned. The members of the panel are: Mr. David Hanly, management consultant; Ms Kay O'Sullivan, director of nursing at Cork University Hospital; Dr. Shakeel A. Qureshi, paediatric cardiologist at Guy's and Thomas's Hospital, London.
The panel's terms of reference are: to consider the report of the ERHA on the events of 30 June 2003 at Our Lady's Hospital for Sick Children, Dublin and to make further inquiries and conduct interviews as the panel considers necessary; to address the questions raised by the family; to examine protocols and procedures relevant to the incident having regard to prevailing standards of best practice and to examine their application; to report to the Minister and to make recommendations as it sees fit; and both reports will be made available following the review.
The work of the review panel is ongoing. At present I am not in a position to say when its report will become available.
