The independent report into possible management failings at the Hospital following the death of a staff nurse is due out this week

THE independent report into potential management failings at the Hospital following the death of a patient has been passed to the Attorney General’s office before it is formally released, the JEP can reveal.

The report by consultants Verita, which is due out this week, is first being ‘vetted’ by law officers. A spokesman for Verita stressed that no amendments could be made to the report without legal reasons from the Attorney General’s office and without the consent of Verita.

But she could not rule out that significant changes to the report could take place.
It is hoped that the independent report will shed some light on what happened to staff nurse Elizabeth Rourke, who died following a routine procedure at the Hospital in October 2006, and the management structures within Health.

Last year locum doctor Dolores Moyano Ontiveros was acquitted of Mrs Rourke’s manslaughter. Consultant gynaecologist John Day, who was on duty the day of Mrs Rourke’s death but was not in theatre when the operation was carried out, was suspended – and remains so more than three years later.