The Minister for Health, Micheál Martin, has asked the Department's Chief Medical Officer, Jim Reilly, to examine the report into the death of Frances Sheridan.
A meeting between the Minister and the Chief Executive of the North Eastern Health Board will take place next week.
The CEO, Paul Robinson, acknowledged today that had contact been made between the A&E Department in Cavan General and the Surgical department then Frances' chances of survival would have increased enormously.
The report by the Health Board on the death of the 9-year-old concluded there was a failure to administer and manage her care properly.
Frances, who was from Cootehill, died after surgery at Cavan General Hospital.
She had undergone an appendix operation three weeks earlier, before returning with stomach pains.
Her parents were told it was probably a tummy bug, and she was sent home, but she died 36 hours later as a result of a trapped bowel.
Mr Robinson said no staff had been disciplined as a result of the tragedy as everyone had acted in good faith. He said he would not be conducting a witch hunt.
As regards the bad working atmosphere, Mr Robinson said the Board were working to change that.
A separate garda inquiry into the death of Frances Sheridan is still continuing. Mr Robinson said if the gardaí requested a copy of the health board's report they would give it to them.
He said the recommendations would be put in place although he declined to set a deadline for their implementation.
The Sheridan family issued a statement through their solicitor, Patricia O'Reilly. The family said it was a source of great distress to them to learn that there was a failure by the hospital to assess and manage Frances' care.
It is devastating for the family that the death of their daughter may have been avoided by proper management,' the statement added.
They said they hoped the recommendations would be put in place to spare any other families this grief.
