An expert from the UK has been commissioned by the HSE to lead an external review of elements of the Paediatric Orthopaedic Surgical service at Children’s Health Ireland (CHI) at Temple Street. This follows a number of serious spinal surgical incidents at the hospital.

 

The review will be conducted by Mr Selvadurai Nayagam, Consultant in Orthopaedics and Trauma, and Head of the Limb Reconstruction Unit at the Royal Liverpool University and Royal Liverpool Children’s Hospitals.

 

The primary focus of this external review will be the clinical care provided by an individual consultant based at CHI at Temple Street, who is currently not conducting surgeries, and in respect of whom a referral has been made to the Irish Medical Council.

 

This review arises from serious concerns identified by CHI since last year relating to poor surgical outcomes in spinal surgery at Temple Street, the use of a certain spinal surgical technique and the use of unauthorised implantable devices.