{"id":506390,"date":"2026-06-18T16:39:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T16:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/506390\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T16:39:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T16:39:14","slug":"abused-patients-at-muckamore-abbey-hospital-failed-on-many-levels-over-many-years-health-trust-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/506390\/","title":{"rendered":"Abused patients at Muckamore Abbey Hospital failed on many levels over many years, health trust says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Abuse an &#8216;appalling betrayal of vulnerable people&#8217;published at 16:02 BST<\/p>\n<p>16:02 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The SDLP&#8217;s Colin McGrath says what happened at Muckamore was a &#8220;shocking dereliction of duty&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">\u201cWhile work to hold individuals accountable is ongoing, it has always been clear that patients were also failed by the wider system,&#8221; he adds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Concerns were raised, warning signs were present and opportunities to intervene existed, yet action was not taken. That raises serious questions about leadership, oversight and safeguarding across our health service.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">People Before Profit assembly member Gerry Carroll says the report can not be allowed to gather dust.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This can never be allowed to happen again. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The health minister must act immediately, and those responsible in positions of power and authority must be held fully to account.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Abuse an &#8216;appalling betrayal of vulnerable people&#8217;published at 16:02 BST 16:02 BST The SDLP&#8217;s Colin McGrath says what&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":506391,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-506390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}