Updates on the Urology Services Inquiry on behalf of Mr. Aidan O’Brien
Opening Statement
“Mr. O’Brien welcomes the opportunity to provide the Inquiry at this early stage in its task with some background and context and to highlight a number of concerns that he has had about the Urology Service commissioned of and provided by the Southern Health and Social Care Trust and its governance.”
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Closing Statement
“At the very beginning of this Inquiry, in the opening statement on his behalf, we observed that, regrettably throughout Mr. O’Brien’s tenure as a consultant, the Urology Service at the Trust was seriously and significantly under-resourced for over three decades, which could obviously not be attributed to the likes of more recent phenomena such as Brexit or Covid. There had been a profound and continuous failing presided over by Trust management, commissioners of health services and the Department of Health to adequately resource the Urology Services at the Trust.”
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