Medical tests under review due to diagnosis concerns

Almost 4,600 former hospital patients in the north-east are due to begin receiving letters today telling them that their chest x-rays and CT scans are being rechecked.

The move comes amid doubts about the work of a locum consultant radiologist who was employed at Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda and Our Lady's Hospital in Navan between August 2006 and August 2007.