IN JANUARY last year, Britain’s General Medical Council (GMC) erased the name of Dr Hassan Hassan Baker from its medical register.

A REPORT investigating the circumstances that led to a woman with breast cancer being wrongly given the all-clear is due for publication on Monday.

The Labour Party is calling for all health service employees to be fully reference checked before they are allowed to take up their positions.

THE Irish employers of a Finnish pathologist who worked as a locum in hospitals in Galway and Cork never bothered to run a check with the Helsinki hospital where his work was found to be negligent.

ALLEGATIONS of serious flaws in the laboratory system at Cork University Hospital (CUH) are “neither credible nor grounded in reality”, the Government insisted last night.