Vicky Phelan warns country is becoming "inured" to health scandals

Patient advocate Vicky Phelan has warned the country is becoming "inured" to health scandals and also declared that proposed health safety sanctions for hospitals are a “joke”.

Ms Phelan, the Limerick mother-of-two who has helped expose the cervical cancer controversy, has also said that a new audit into tests is likely to show up to another 200 women who were misdiagnosed.