Colette Cowan appointed among integrated healthcare area managers in midwest while facing disciplinary proceedings following Aoife Johnston’s death at University Hospital Limerick
Colette Cowan is one of six people facing disciplinary proceedings following the death of Aoife Johnston. She has been placed on administrative leave pending further investigations. She has not taken up her new role. Photograph: Chris Radburn/PA Wiredeath to a new senior role in the health service is “not a promotion” and is a result of her role no longer existing,
Ms Johnston, from Shannon in Co Clare, died of meningitis in December 2022 after she was referred to the hospital’s emergency department with suspected sepsis that went untreated for 13 hours. A report by former chief justice Frank Clarke found the circumstances that led to her death were “almost certainly avoidable”.
“I believe a redeployment of senior management is a reasonable thing to do. It’s not a promotion. It is moving to what arguably is being seen as a smaller span of control,” he said. However, Mr Donnelly advised politicians not to “underestimate the power of contract law in this country”. As part of the changes in the midwest region, Mr Donnelly said Ian Carter had been appointed chief executive over acute and older persons services, while Dr Catherine Peters was appointed regional clinical director.
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