THE family of a former Leas Cross patient have rejected the terms of reference of an inquiry into his death.

HEALTH chiefs were aware of deficiencies at Leas Cross nursing home for eight years which culminated in “something very evil” happening, relatives of former residents at the nursing home claimed yesterday.

A WOMAN who had her abdomen unnecessarily cut open, after she was misdiagnosed as carrying twins, was compensated by over €100,000 in an out-of-court settlement.

A senior clinical psychologist who highlighted the death of an elderly patient at the Leas Cross nursing home said today he felt vindicated by the subsequent expert report.

The Embark Initiative, operated by the Irish Research Council for Science, Engineering and Technology (IRCSET), says new funding of up to €4.6m is available for talented researchers under its Postdoctoral Fellowship Scheme 2006.

THE report into the death of the man who died of septicaemia 12 days after being admitted to the controversial Leas Cross nursing home in Swords, Co Dublin, will be made public within weeks.

A patients’ group tonight called for the publication of a report into the death of a 60-year-old disabled man at a former Dublin nursing home.

A psychologist said today he was targeted maliciously after he raised concerns about the transfer of a patient who later died at the Leas Cross Nursing Home in Dublin.

THE Health Service Executive (HSE) has ordered an immediate investigation into the deaths of patients who died in the care of Leas Cross nursing home.

THE owner of Leas Cross nursing home yesterday made a desperate bid to retain residents, offering its services free for six months.

THE health authorities had a highly critical report on the Leas Cross nursing home in Dublin almost a full year before a television programme exposed substandard conditions there, Taoiseach Bertie Ahern has confirmed.

WHEN Peter McKenna died, he was alone, in terrible pain, and frightened. He didn’t know what was happening to him because he couldn’t.

DOCTORS who carried out an emergency caesarean section on a woman who was mistakenly identified as carrying twins have been heavily criticised in a report to be published within the next fortnight.

A UNIT of incorrectly labelled blood recalled from a maternity hospital was inadvertently sent to another hospital because of poor quality control at the Irish Blood Transfusion Service.

A GROUP of international medical experts is set to decide within weeks whether blood donations should be tested at just one centre.

The Chief Executive of the Blood Transfusion Board is stepping down and says the forthcoming tribunal into the Hepatitis C scandal will vindicate his name.

The board of the Irish blood transfusion service is to meet this morning with it’s national medical director, to discuss a row in which two of its senior executives were suspended.

The head of the blood bank, Martin Hynes, has been suspended.