Patients’ group calls for removal of chiefs

PATIENT representatives have called on the chairman of Tallaght Hospital to resign and its chief executive to step aside.

In an unprecedented move, the Irish Patients’ Association called for the removal of senior management at the Dublin hospital until the “dysfunctionality” that lead to the scandal of 58,000 X-rays not being properly checked is uncovered.

In a statement, the association called on Tallaght Hospital chairman Lyndon MacCann to go. Patients representatives also want the hospital designate chief executive, Kevin Conlon, to leave his position.