Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 24 April 2007
457 Mr. Neville asked the Minister for Health and Children if she will establish an independent clinical review process to examine all aspects of the care and treatment provided to a person (details supplied) in County Cork in the course of their admission to the acute psychiatric in-patient unit of Cork University Hospital on 17 October 2004. [14897/07]
Amharc ar fhreagraIn March 2005, I asked the Mental Health Commission to prepare a report on the circumstances surrounding the death of the person who died in the acute psychiatric unit of Cork University Hospital in October 2004. The Report was received in my Department in November 2006.
In preparing their Report the Commission sought information from the Health Service Executive, Southern area on the actions undertaken by the health service since the death of the named person. The Inspectorate also carried out a review of the circumstances surrounding the death.
Under the Health Act 2004, operational responsibility for the management and delivery of health and personal social services was assigned to the Health Service Executive. Accordingly, my Department wrote to the Health Service Executive, requesting that all shortcomings identified in the Report be addressed as a matter of urgency.
