A Dublin-based doctor has offered what he says is a solution to a staffing shortage at the biochemistry department in Cork University Hospital (CUH) which has led to the withdrawal of its clinical advisory service and a decision to voluntarily suspend accreditation.

THE pathologist whose incorrect analysis led 41-year-old breast cancer patient Rebecca O’Malley to believe she did not have the disease worked at Cork University Hospital for at least one year, it has emerged.