Walsh lauds innovative day-care model
Adoping an international best practice day-care model can deliver optimum efficiency and patient care in Irish hospitals. That is the view of Ed Walsh, the chairman of a new strategic advisory board to...
View ArticleVerdict in asthma death delivered after 27 years
The death of Juliet O’Connell, who attended the Salesian Secondary school in the city and lived at Santa Monica, North Circular Road, had been the subject of drawn-out litigation which went to the High...
View ArticleCancer was missed three times, court told
Mrs Fahey has sued Barringtons Hospital; the HSE; a surgeon at Barringtons Hospital, Paul O’Byrne; and a consultant radiologist there, Alex Stafford. The defendants have admitted liability in relation...
View ArticleCancer misdiagnosis case leads to call for ‘more human decency’
The head of the State Claims Agency, Ciarán Breen said the State Claims Agency, on behalf of the HSE, had admitted liability with its defence at an early stage. It had made great efforts to come to an...
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