Revealed: errors threatened patients’ lives

FOUR patients needed life-saving treatment because of medical errors at the Galway Hospice, an independent report has revealed.

The hospice has been unable to provide full services since last May when its consultant, Dr Dympna Waldron, made allegations about the incorrect dispensing of drugs and stopped referring patients to its beds.

The hospice set up an independent review group, chaired by Ian Carter, St James’s Hospital deputy chief executive, and it published its report yesterday.