Source · NIPSO (NI Public Services Ombudsman)

Belfast Health and Social Care Trust

NIPSO (NI Public Services Ombudsman) Other Reference NIPSO-17178 Sector Health & Social Care Decided 01 October 2018

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An Ombudsman investigation has found that a hospital patient should have been given higher levels of fluid in the days before he died, but that while this may have prolonged his life for a time his death could not have been avoided.

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