Children face having to travel abroad for spinal surgery

Leo Varadkar said of the controversy at CHI at Temple Street: 'I do think we have to consider the possibility that there was a wider failure of clinical governance here'

Children now face having to travel abroad for spinal surgery amid fears long waiting lists for the operations will grow in the wake of the latest scandal to hit the health service.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar said the "alarming" issues that have emerged in relation to the surgeries for children at CHI at Temple Street "extend well beyond malpractice" and may involve "wider failure of clinical governance".