Families consider legal action over misdiagnoses

A NUMBER of families whose relatives died as a result of a series of lung cancer misdiagnoses are considering legal action over the debacle, the Irish Examiner has learned.

The news comes following yesterday’s publication of the HSE’s review of almost 6,000 x-rays and 67 CT scans which were incorrectly diagnosed by an elderly locum consultant radiologist working in the Louth Meath Hospitals between August 2006 and August 2007.

The review — released more than a month after its original publication date — was given to the families just hours before it was publicly released.