Clare HSE Patient Advocate Says He'll "Ensure" Clarke Report Recommendations Are Implemented

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A Clare-based new appointee to a board of HSE MidWest says he'll do all in his power to ensure the recommendations of the Clarke report are implemented. Lahinch healthcare campaigner John Wall has been appointed to the organisation's Programme Improvement Board as a patient advocate, meaning he'll have an input on funding, spending, decion-making and will be a figure with which members of the public can raise concerns. It's now a month on from the publication of the report carried out by former Chief Justice Frank Clarke into the death of Shannon teenager Aoife Johnston at UHL which found that her passing was "almost certainly avoidable", and made 17 recommendations to the facility's Emergency Department. John Wall says although his influence will be limited in his new role, he'll endeavour to make sure the recommended improvements are made.