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Northern Health and Social Care Trust

NIPSO (NI Public Services Ombudsman) Other Reference NIPSO-19483 Sector Health & Social Care Decided 10 August 2021

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We partially upheld a complaint that a patient contracted sepsis because he was released too early from Antrim Area Hospital.  We asked the hospital to apologise for its failings, and to review its procedures on discharge of patients from the ward in question.

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