HSE sends psychiatric notes to wrong family

A WOMAN who had previously received a HSE letter that wrongly stated her husband was dead has now been sent confidential information about a psychiatric patient to whom she was not related.

The mental health service in Clare has apologised to Dolores Keogh for “this unfortunate error and breach of data protection”.

Before she was sent the letter, Mrs Keogh, from Sixmilebridge, Co Clare, had demanded a public inquiry into the treatment provided to her husband John and other patients at an acute psychiatric unit.