Up to 8,000 die in Irish hospitals due to 'adverse events'

It is estimated that as many as 8,000 people died here in 2008 as a result of an 'adverse event' in an Irish hospital.

The Clinical Negligence and Access to Justice conference this week was told that, based on extrapolating international figures to Ireland, we could have 160,000 adverse events in Irish hospitals per year, causing up to 8,000 deaths.