After the High Court ruling in the Bell case in late 2020, the HSE wrote a letter of comfort for Crumlin hospital over its use of Tavistock. The hospital said it stopped using Tavistock after the Bell case but Irish patients have continued to be referred to Tavistock.
Just in case anybody missed what this was about.
The *letter of comfort& will be supplied to the hospitals insurance company. The comfort is that the Irish taxpayer will pick up any bill.
Hospital management will not have to worry about including a contingent liability in the financial statements nor plan to include litigation costs the hospital budget. Even with the best will in the world that puts that service, way way down the priority list of how to prevent financial disasters while running an underfunded hospital.
And the first line of defence is having good record keeping on management decisions, which they claim not to have so mature recollection will be laughed at in Court too.