Medical Council’s past chief guilty of poor performance

A former president of the Medical Council who is now the clinical director of Wexford General Hospital has been found guilty of poor professional performance.

Dr Colm Quigley, a consultant in general medicine and a former president of the Irish Hospital Consultants’ Association, had five allegations of poor professional performance proven against him before a fitness to practise inquiry.

They related to his handling of a patient, referred to him with what his GP feared was a “serious underlying condition”.