Considering the contentious nature of the case, it is perhaps unsurprising that even the make-up of the HSE “clinical review” into Savita Halappanavar’s death has repeatedly been dogged by controversy.

Health Minister Mary Harney is to announce a number of significant initiatives today on the issue of patient safety.

A leading patient support group in Ireland today questioned a review of all recorded cases of misdiagnosed miscarriage in the country over the last five years.

PATIENT representatives have called on the chairman of Tallaght Hospital to resign and its chief executive to step aside.

A PATHOLOGIST at the centre of a highly critical report that revealed a series of cancer misdiagnoses has been found guilty of professional misconduct but was not struck off the register.

Health Minister Mary Harney today faced growing demands for an independent inquiry into the alleged abuse of former patients of shamed ex-surgeon Michael Shine.

THE group representing former patients of disgraced obstetrician Dr Michael Neary has requested an extension of the government’s redress scheme to all women on whom he performed unwarranted medical procedures.

The Minister for Health Mary Harney will face a 'no confidence' vote over the crisis in cancer services as a fifth inquiry into failings in patient care began tonight.

Victims of disgraced obstetrician Michael Neary will meet Minister for Health Mary Harney today to discuss a multi-million euro compensation scheme.

ALARM bells would have rung earlier about the number of hysterectomies performed by disgraced doctor Michael Neary if, as is the case now, he had to seek a second opinion, a campaign group has claimed.

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WOMEN who had their wombs removed unnecessarily were reassured by Health Minister Micheál Martin that the State’s inquiry would get the support it needed to expose the scandal.

A PATIENT lobby group is to request a change in legislation to prevent doctors struck off by the Medical Council practicing alternative medicine.

FORMER patients of disgraced consultant Michael Neary were yesterday infuriated by a cancellation at short notice of a planned meeting with Health Minister Mícheál Martin.

A DISGRACED obstetrician faces claims for damages from more than 100 women after a High Court ruling yesterday.

THE nuns who ran the Drogheda hospital where over 100 women allege unnecessary hysterectomies were performed on them have backed the women’s call for a public inquiry.

WOMEN who had their wombs removed by a Drogheda obstetrician will refuse to go before a second Medical Council inquiry into alleged misconduct, it emerged yesterday.

THERE are two conflicting images of Dr Michael Neary which cloud the otherwise clear-cut verdict of the High Court, which yesterday found him medically negligent in the first of more than 60 legal actions being taken against him.