The health minister has announced that a further review of clinical records of 18 patients who died under the care of neurologist Michael Watt is to be carried out.
Mr Watt was at the centre of Northern Ireland's largest patient recall in 2018.
In 2022 a review of 44 patients' records found significant failures in their care and treatment under Mr Watt and poor communication with the families.
In a written statement to the assembly, Mike Nesbitt acknowledged "the exceptionally difficult circumstances which the families of deceased patients have experienced".
It is anticipated that this phase of the Neurology Deceased Patients Review (DPR) 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.
About one in five patients had to have their diagnoses changed.
Mike Nesbitt said the work done to date as part of the Deceased Patients Review (DPR) has been "challenging and extensive".
Source: BBC News, 3 July 2024
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