24-03-2025
Muckamore Inquiry: Call for information on patient resettlement
The Muckamore Abbey Hospital Inquiry panel has called on those with personal experiences of resettlement from the hospital to come panel will use any information given to help inform its final resettlement process, aimed at moving patients to community placements, has been a complex undertaking.A missed June 2024 target hospital closure date was dependent on all the remaining patients successfully moving to agreed alternative accommodation placements in the community.
The panel wants to hear from patients, their relatives and carers involved in the process from 14 June 2021 to the present day, regardless of whether or not they have already assisted the willing to share information can do so through small group sessions before the panel; individual attendance before the panel in early June; or by providing a note of their experience to the deadline for people to contact the inquiry is 25 April and can be done via the inquiry inquiry into what happened at the Antrim-based hospital, which provides facilities for adults for special needs, began in June final public hearing of the inquiry took place in early March.A separate major police investigation began in 2017 after allegations of ill-treatment began to for 120 days, the inquiry heard oral evidence from 181 is due to publish its findings later this is thought to be the biggest criminal adult safeguarding case of its kind in the UK.
