THE HSE has blamed the recruitment ban for missing today’s deadline for the establishment of a national aero-medical co-ordination centre.

THE concisely titled HIQA “Report of the inquiry into the circumstances that led to the failed transportation of Meadhbh McGivern for transplant surgery and the existing inter-agency arrangements in place for people requiring emergency transportation for transplant surgery” makes for interesting reading.

MEADHBH McGivern’s father has said that he was shocked at a report’s finding that no single body had overall responsibility for co-ordinating travel plans for patients requiring transplant surgery in Britain.

CRUMLIN Children’s Hospital has insisted it stands by its claims that money was not an issue in failed attempts to get a teenage girl to London for a liver transplant.