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NIPSO (NI Public Services Ombudsman) Upheld Reference NIPSO-202005762 Sector Health & Social Care Decided 03 June 2025

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Delayed Recognition of Deterioration Inaccurate and inaccessible patient records

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A woman claimed that if her late husband’s weight loss been investigated properly his cancer may have been detected sooner. We found it was a ‘significant failure in care and treatment’ that his GP didn’t send him for further diagnostic treatment.

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