{"id":2447,"date":"2021-03-09T15:11:41","date_gmt":"2021-03-09T15:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oreillystewart.com\/?p=2447"},"modified":"2021-03-09T15:11:41","modified_gmt":"2021-03-09T15:11:41","slug":"public-inquiry-into-southern-trust-urology-consultant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oreillystewart.com\/public-inquiry-into-southern-trust-urology-consultant\/","title":{"rendered":"Public Inquiry into Southern Trust Urology Consultant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christine Smith, Q.C.\u00a0 has been appointed to Chair the Public Inquiry investigating the practice of Consultant Urologist Aidan O\u2019Brien, now retired, during his employment by the Southern Health and Social Care Trust.<\/p>\n<p>We have received instructions by families of patients who have been directly affected following these allegations and understand the Inquiry will investigate the care of prostate cancer patients who were under the care of\u00a0 Aiden O&#8217;Brien, consultant urologist at Craigavon Area hospital. Thousands of patients records have been reviewed and over 270 patients have been contacted. To date 9 cases have been investigated as Serious Adverse Incidents.<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Reilly Stewart Healthcare Solicitors act regularly on behalf of victims of negligence in medical care and are also actively involved in multiple cases following the Trust\u2019s recall of Dr Watt\u2019s patients which was also upgraded recently to a Public Inquiry.<\/p>\n<p>If you have been affected by this Urology recall or have any concerns regarding medical treatment, please do not hesitate to contact our <a href=\"https:\/\/oreillystewart.com\/practice_area\/healthcare\/\">Healthcare<\/a> team, by <a href=\"https:\/\/oreillystewart.com\/contact-us\/\">email<\/a>, by livechat\u00a0 or by phone 02890321000<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christine Smith, Q.C.\u00a0 has been appointed to Chair the Public Inquiry investigating the practice of Consultant Urologist Aidan O\u2019Brien, now retired, during his employment by the Southern Health and Social Care Trust. We have received instructions by families of patients who have been directly affected following these allegations and understand the Inquiry will investigate the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"class_list":["post-2447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Public Inquiry into Southern Trust Urology Consultant - O\u2019Reilly Stewart Solicitors - Belfast, Northern Ireland, Legal Firm<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"ORS act for patients caught up in the patient recall pursuant to concerns raised about the work of Mr Aiden O&#039;Brien, Consultant Urologist\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/oreillystewart.com\/public-inquiry-into-southern-trust-urology-consultant\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Public Inquiry into Southern Trust Urology Consultant - 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