Radiology staff and resources ‘in short supply’

All public radiology departments are under pressure as they are neither staffed nor resourced adequately to meet demand, according to the Faculty of Radiologists.

The faculty, the professional and academic body for radiologists, was responding to the publication on Wednesday of a report which found a cancer diagnosis had either been delayed or missed in 14 patients attending University Hospital Kerry (UHK), four of whom have died. The diagnosis of one patient with lung cancer was delayed by 76 weeks.