Hospital counsel: 8 retrospective entries in records + 1 sheet of notes added. No intent to mislead, no entries deleted. #Savita
— Fergal Bowers (@FergalBowers) April 11, 2013
Hospital counsel: 8 retrospective entries in records + 1 sheet of notes added. No intent to mislead, no entries deleted. #Savita
— Fergal Bowers (@FergalBowers) April 11, 2013
Counsel for hospital says sorry someone wrote on medical notes but it was just to highlight entry, no material change #Savita
— Fergal Bowers (@FergalBowers) April 10, 2013
Hospital: no retrospective interference with records, internal investigation not involved #Savita
— Fergal Bowers (@FergalBowers) April 10, 2013
Counsel for Praveen: there are ‘a flurry of retrospective notes’ made in records, recorded as such, but need explanation #Savita
— Fergal Bowers (@FergalBowers) April 10, 2013
(Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland)
UPDATE:
Coroner tells inquest: ‘Seems unusual to write notes in medical records 2 weeks after event & when Ms Halappanavar had died.’
— Fergal Bowers (@FergalBowers) April 10, 2013
Dr Astbury tells inquest she did not record #Savita request for termination on Tues, Oct 23. Does not recall other requests
— Fergal Bowers (@FergalBowers) April 10, 2013
Staff midwife Miriam Dunleavey stuns inquest saying, entries in the nursing/medical notes ‘were put in by the internal inquiry’.
— Fergal Bowers (@FergalBowers) April 9, 2013
Some background:
The seven-member HSE internal inquiry team was led by Prof Sabraratnam Arulkumaran, head of obstetrics and gynaecology at St George’s University of London.
Three members of the original inquiry team were from Galway University Hospital, with the final three being an employee from Cork University Hospital,a patient advocate and a representative from the HSE National Incident Management Team.
After Savita’s husband Praveen Halappavanar complained about the presence of three employees from the Galway hospital, the HSE replaced them.
The three were replaced with Professor James Walker, of St James Hospital in Leeds, Dr Brian Marsh, of the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital and Professor Mary Horgan, of Cork University Hospital.
UPDATE:
The midwife notes in #Savita case inserted a bracket only
— nicola anderson (@tokonic) April 9, 2013
Midwife says internal investigation added entries to Savita Halappanavar’s medical notes (RTÉ)