HSE failed to contact Savita’s family over leak

The HSE has yet to contact the family of Savita Halappanavar to apologise for, or clarify, how parts of its clinical review into her death were leaked.

After the draft report was leaked on Wednesday, Praveen Halappanavar’s solicitor Gerard O’Donnell wrote to Health Minister James Reilly to underline the hurt caused by the security breach.

In the letter, he said Mr Halappanavar had only learned of the document’s details through media reports.