Ennis General Hospital has been declared unsafe according to a new report from the health watchdog HIQA.

A pathologist, together with a surgeon and radiologist, all with a specific interest in breast disease, must always be present at a multi-disciplinary team meeting of triple assessment clinics.

A "once-off interpretive error by a locum consultant pathologist in Cork University Hospital (CUH)" has been blamed for the misdiagnosis of cancer sufferer Rebecca O’Malley.

A hard-hitting study offering an alternative to the Government’s Hanly report is to be launched by a health services action group today.