Family wins four-year legal battle with HSE

A family which has won a four-year legal battle with the HSE arising out of the death of their sister in Cork University Hospital has called for reforms to end the “culture of non-disclosure” in the healthcare system.

The HSE accepted before the High Court sitting in Cork yesterday that the care Gráinne Daly, 45, received in CUH in the hours before her death in 2009 “did not reach the standards that could be expected”.

Ms Daly, who was being treated for pneumonia, died on Nov 8, 2009, after a series of fatal cardiac arrests.