Parents of Finlay Browne call for change as recommendations from 'very special' inquest are released

In short: An inquest has found teenager Finlay Browne died from complications from a bowel obstruction in the context of "issues concerning the adequacy of care and treatment" provided in a Bathurst hospital. An inquest has found teenager Finlay Browne died from complications from a bowel obstruction in the context of "issues concerning the adequacy of care and treatment" provided in a Bathurst hospital. On Friday, an inquest found the cause of Finlay's death to be complications from a bowel obstruction in the context of "issues concerning the adequacy of care and treatment" provided in the emergency department of Bathurst Base Hospital. Magistrate Kennedy's recommendations That Western NSW Local Health District provide all its clinical staff with formal unconscious bias training, including how it influences treatment of people with a disability, and review processes in this area That Bathurst Hospital have better processes for how it deals with urgent and competing surgical cases, after the inquest heard a potentially less urgent surgical case was treated ahead of Finlay On Friday, Magistrate Kennedy said all the parties during the inquest had worked together and the lessons learned would be "so helpful and so profound" going forward.