Radiology services review to be published next month

The results of a review into radiology services in the north-east of the country is due to be published next month.

The review was commissioned late last year when it emerged that a number of patients at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda and Our Lady's Hospital in Navan had their cancer diagnosis delayed in 2006 and 2007.

The delay occurred after an abnormality on their chest X-ray was not noted in the radiologist's initial examination.

These patients were subsequently diagnosed with lung cancer by follow-up x-rays and have since died.

The Health Service Executive says a review into 6,000 x-rays and a number of CT scans is now in its final stages and will be published in full next month.