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News Update From Rate My Hospital
» HIQA clashes with Tallaght on x-ray blunder 10 Mar 2010
In a further twist to the Tallaght Hospital x-ray scandal, the independent hospital safety watchdog has said that at a meeting last August with the then CEO of the hospital and the doctor who recently succeeeded him, it was told that the x-ray backlog problem was effectively under control and...
» HSE announces probe of Tallaght scandal 10 Mar 2010
The HSE has announced that an independently-chaired investigation will be carried out into the x-ray scandal at Dublin's Tallaght Hospital.
It was revealed yesterday that nearly 60,000 x-rays at the hospital were not reviewed or reported on by consultant radiologists at Tallaght over a...
» Massive x-ray blunder at Tallaght 09 Mar 2010
Dublin's Tallaght Hospital has admitted that around 58,000 x-rays taken over a four-year period were never reviewed by a consultant radiologist.
Two patients had a delayed diagnosis as a result of this. One of the patients died last year, while the other is receiving treatment for...
» Ireland's MRSA rates still high 09 Mar 2010
While MRSA levels found in the bloodstream of Irish hospital patients are decreasing, the rates in Ireland are still relatively high, according to the latest report from the Health Protection Surveillance Centre (HPSC).
The report shows that the level of MRSA found in patients' blood is...
