Group probing HSE postmortem policy to report by autumn

'The Voice of Our Angels Group protesting at Cork University Hospital, about organ retention/disposal, earlier this summer. File picture: Larry Cummins

In the wake of a damning audit published last week, a working group set up to update the HSE’s national policy on postmortems is expected to issue a report in the autumn.

It has now emerged that organs from one individual, which had been held for longer than 12 months when the audit’s report was finalised in February, are continuing to be held at University Hospital Waterford, according to a hospital spokesman.