Children's Health Ireland - Patient safety concerns and reviews in paediatric orthopaedic surgical services: Statements, Questions and Answers
Dail Éireann — 2023-09-26
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James Lawless (FF), Kildare North

I will cut to the chase. Were these patients or their parents invited to consent to these procedures? Did they consent and was there a discussion or a decision at some point where they were told what they were signing up to here and what was going to happen and were they then misinformed? Was consent given which was based on false information? What engagement happened between patient and surgeon for this to happen? How was that managed and was that then vitiated by false information?
What is the next step when the initial findings come out? I know there will be many different investigations but when are the initial findings likely to be available? I thank the Cathaoirleach Gníomhach and the Minister. I thought I had much more time and I was only warming up.

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Sitting date: 2023-09-26