Friday, March 12, 2010 Previous editions
A LEADING patient group warned Health Minister Mary Harney that Tallaght Hospital was a crisis waiting to happen as early as 2007.
PATIENT representatives have called on the chairman of Tallaght Hospital to resign and its chief executive to step aside.
PATIENT groups at Tallaght Hospital said people are “extremely worried” about the quality of care there after the Health Service Executive confirmed that 3,500 referral letters from GPs were not opened by consultants, on top of the 58,000 X-rays that had not been read by radiologists.
THE outbreak of measles in Cork and Kerry is running up to seven times the rate of the infection in many other parts of the country.
A NUMBER of elderly patients at Beaumont Hospital have been put on two weeks’ notice that they face a weekly bill of €1,365 if they fail to apply for nursing home support under the State’s Fair Deal scheme.
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