found significant failures in their care and treatment under Mr Watt and poor communication with the families.
It is anticipated that this phase of the Neurology Deceased Patients Review will be completed before the end of March 2025.These reviews followed the 2018 recall of 2,500 outpatients who were in Dr Watt's care at the Belfast Health Trust.Mike Nesbitt said the work done to date as part of the Deceased Patients Review has been "challenging and extensive".
The Regulation and Quality Improvement Authority commissioned the Royal College of Physicians to review the clinical case notes of Michael Watt's patients who died in the 10 years prior to the neurology recall. Its purpose being to "provide the opportunity to impart answers, if possible, to the families in respect of the quality of care and treatment provided to their deceased relatives".