The Hermitage Medical Clinic has apologised at the High Court over failures in the care provided to a woman who died from sepsis after developing a rare infection following a hernia operation at the clinic. Ms McGee, a mother of two, Skerries Road, Rush, Co Dublin, died in hospital on July 24th, 2013, having developed a rare Clostridium difficile infection affecting almost her entire bowel following the hernia operation 11 days earlier at The Hermitage Medical Clinic. A verdict of medical misadventure was returned at the inquest into the death of Ms McGee. “The Hermitage Medical Clinic has reassured us new procedures are in place for the handover of patients and we hope lessons have been learned. ‘Lessons learned’The apology said The Hermitage Medical Clinic together with Prof Hill and Mr Power extend their sincerest condolences and apologies to Ms McGee’s family arising out of her death and “for the failures in her care”.

Source: The Irish Times November 12, 2018 13:52 UTC