Kerry mental health service: Compensation will be necessary – Tánaiste

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Kerry mental health service: Compensation will be necessary –Tánaiste

“I’m sure it is absolutely the case that it will be necessary to provide financial compensation to many of the families affected by this,” Mr Varadkar said.

“These are clear failings in care, clearly not up to basic professional standards so I’ve absolutely no doubt that families will bring cases forward, that they will need to be assessed and that compensation, payments will need to be made.”leader said this may be more complicated than it seems “because every case is individual” and a mechanism to do that will need to be found.

“We’ve had some initial discussion about how that can best be done and done in a sensitive way,” he said. Mr Varadkar said the failings could not be defended and should not have happened and also “should have been identified and acted on much sooner than they were”.who have the authority to sanction medical practitioners “if that’s appropriate to do so”. Mr Varadkar said details of the nationwide audit would be discussed at Cabinet on Tuesday.Mr Varadkar said the issue of a State apology to the affected families would have to be given consideration by the Government and the Taoiseach.

Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)

 

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