Person: Geraldine Barry

A COMPREHENSIVE SERIES OF ARTICLES ON THIS TOPIC

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Adversarial cases make a mockery of the HSE’s open-disclosure policy

These seven high-profile cases from 2015 show that the HSE has a long way to go in translating policy into practice, writes Catherine Shanahan

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Statutory obligation is crucial as the HSE is still refusing to admit mistakes

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Woman awarded €500k for death of partner after op at Mercy Hospital Cork

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Damages ruling due next month

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‘I did not trust anybody at the hospital’

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‘Nobody seemed to notice he was dying’

Woman was not told her dying partner had sepsis

A woman broke down in tears in the High Court yesterday when she told how she watched her partner die weeks after an operation at Mercy University Hospital, Cork, and how she was not told there was sepsis.

Wed, 07 Oct, 2015

Your Wednesday lunchtime catch-up

Good afternoon. Here’s all the news you need to know this lunchtime.

Wed, 07 Oct, 2015

Turn over a new leaf by reading with your kids

Reading (and being read to) helps your children understand the world around them, and eases them into school, says Mark Evans, and now one bookshop is helping with age-appropriate reading lists

Tue, 19 Aug, 2014

The Marathon Experience

IT WAS the Jazz weekend in Cork and we were leaving for Dublin with a plastic bag of fruit and bottles of water. We had dodged the obvious questions and feeling good about ourselves.

Wed, 12 Nov, 2003