TWO families who triggered the independent review of services at the Mid-Western Regional Hospital in Ennis are furious no one has been held accountable.

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

Services at the Mid Western Regional Hospital in Ennis will come under scrutiny today as the results of a HIQA report are published this lunchtime.

THE families of two women, who died after they were incorrectly given breast cancer all-clears, said they will hold Health Minister Mary Harney personally responsible if an investigation into the scandal fails to explain how the tragedies occurred.

A YOUNG teacher whose breast cancer went undiagnosed at one of the country’s leading hospitals has told her story in the hope of encouraging other women with symptoms to insist on thorough tests.

THE review team investigating cancer services at the Mid-West Regional Hospital in Ennis is expected to complete its work within three months.

A SYSTEM-WIDE dependency on locum consultants who are not staff hospital employees is behind the latest cancer misdiagnosis crisis in the north- east, it has been claimed.

THE state’s health service watchdog yesterday outlined the purpose and structure of its investigation into the quality and safety of patient care at Ennis General Hospital.

THE family of deceased cancer misdiagnosis victim Ann Moriarty believe attempts were made to cover up mistakes in relation to her hospital treatment.

FAMILIES of women who died as a result of cancer misdiagnosis will get “the full facts” about what happened to their loved ones, Health Minister Mary Harney has said.

A SPECIALIST helpline has been established for GPs dealing with women seeking a review of their breast cancer results.

I WISH to congratulate the relatives of cancer victims Ann Moriarthy and Edel Kelly for demanding an inquiry into their deaths.

HSE chief executive Brendan Drumm has confirmed that the organisation is investigating a third suspected breast cancer misdiagnosis at Ennis General Hospital.

THE chief executive of the Health Service Executive has confirmed that a third case of cancer misdiagnosis is expected to come to light and that medical files have been taken from Ennis General Hospital for assessment at another facility.

THE mother of Edel Kelly — the woman who died after her cancer went undiagnosed at Ennis Hospital, Co Clare — has described her hairdresser daughter as her best friend.

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The husband of Ann Moriarty, who died after her breast cancer was misdiagnosed on two occasions, is meeting with the Health Information and Quality Authority later.

THE chief executive of the HSE believes tragic cases of misdiagnosis, like the one which lead to the death of Ann Moriarty, will continue to occur if all eight centres of cancer care excellence aren’t fully up and running.

The Minister for Health is to meet today with Karl Henry, whose wife died after her breast cancer was misdiagnosed last year.

THE State’s health service watchdog was briefed yesterday by the Health Service Executive on the latest breast cancer misdiagnosis controversy.

KARL HENRY, the husband of a patient who died after her breast cancer was misdiagnosed, has agreed to meet Health Minister Mary Harney next week.

The Health Minister has said she will meet the husband of a woman who died of breast cancer this year. The woman had been given the all-clear on two separate occasions before she died.

IT WAS an entire systems failure that cost Ann Moriarty her life, patient advocate Rebecca O’Malley stressed yesterday.

The family of a 53-year-old woman who died from breast cancer earlier this year say she was given the all clear on two separate occasions.

LESS than a year after receiving the all-clear for breast cancer, Ann Moriarty died, leaving behind a devastated husband and teenage son.