The HSE has unreservedly apologised for shortcomings in the management and care of a 31-year-old woman whose cancer went undiagnosed for nine months.

A DISPUTE has arisen between two secretaries as to whether the medical chart of a deceased patient had lain in a consultant’s office tray for months or weeks.

A FORMER registrar at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda has told a Medical Council fitness to practise inquiry she cannot recall a note left on a chart to ensure a biopsy was conducted on a woman who died from cancer.

A CONSULTANT obstetrician and gynaecologist is facing a Medical Council fitness to practise inquiry over the care he gave to a young woman who died from cancer two years ago.