HSE seeks to confirm no repeat of Tallaght scandal

THE Health Service Executive has asked all hospitals to confirm they have no unopened referral letters from GPs seeking treatment for their patients.

In a letter sent to all public facilities in the wake of the Tallaght Hospital scandal, the HSE’s Serious Untoward Incident Unit (SUI) urged hospitals to confirm similar problems are not occurring elsewhere.

The letter, sent on Thursday by the head of the SUI, Anne Carrigy, asked hospitals “to confirm you have no unopened letters to diagnostic and speciality services”.