Northern Ireland's permanent health secretary has given evidence at the urology inquiry.
Urology consultant Aidan O'Brien worked at Craigavon Area Hospital before his retirement in July 2020The Department of Health is to review its "early alert" system because it's not working consistently, a public inquiry has been told.inquiry examining consultant urologist Dr Aidan O'Brien's workIt is also examining the Southern Health and Social Care Trust's handling of urology services before May 2020.
"It's all down to human judgement and prone to human error in relation to how systems of that nature work." He said the inquiry was one of a number of inquiries that had raised "serious concerns" about patient safety issues and the health services must learn, from all of them, ways to improve "how these vital services are delivered".
The first week of the inquiry heard opening statements from the legal representatives of each core participant which includes the DoH, SHSCT and Mr Aidan O'Brien. It has also been claimed that some private patients, under the care of Mr O'Brien, were given "advantageous" treatment over NHS patients with the same clinical priority.
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