A €35m IT system designed to improve care for mothers and babies and cut down on paperwork has created more work for staff and more room for error because of a failure to link it up with GP IT systems.

A €35m IT system designed to improve care for mothers and babies and cut down on paperwork has created more work for staff and more room for error because of a failure to link it up with GP IT systems.

THE Irish Medical Council has doubled the period of suspension imposed on a GP who failed to pass on crucial test results to his now terminally-ill patient and then tried to cover it up.

A CORK Garda superintendent with terminal cancer fears there could be a repeat of the kind of medical error that destroyed his life.

A DOCTOR who admitted trying to cover up his failure to note a recommendation of further surgery for a now terminally ill patient behaved disgracefully, the Irish Medical Council’s fitness to practise committee said yesterday.