Two nurses have been struck off the register of nurses as the results of investigations by the Fitness to Practise Committee of the nursing regulatory body, An Bord Altranais.

A DOCTOR is facing a series of charges of professional misconduct after altering medical records of an asylum seeker who took his own life while a patient at the Mater Hospital in Dublin.

A MEDICAL inquiry into two surgeons responsible for the removal of the wrong kidney from a young boy at Our Lady’s Hospital for Sick Children in Crumlin was dramatically halted yesterday after the committee invoked a new piece of legislation to terminate proceedings.