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16/05/2008 - 18:41:45
Some 4,500 patients at the centre of a cancer misdiagnoses scare tonight faced a further agonising wait after the Health Service Executive admitted a double blunder.
Letters informing them their chest x-rays were being reviewed following the deaths of four people wrongly given the all-clear for lung cancer have been posted to the wrong addresses, the HSE said.
A private postal firm charged with the task was blamed for the error and health chiefs said the whole process was being restarted.
The HSE admitted the alarming gaffe after Health Minister Mary Harney confirmed 6,000 x-rays from patients in the Louth/Meath area are to be re-examined over concerns about the practices of a radiologist.
"The HSE has learned today that a small number of letters have been misaddressed by the company who undertook this work on our behalf," a spokesperson said.
"The HSE is deeply disappointed at this failure to protect this very sensitive information and is in discussions with the company concerned in this regard."
The health body said it had arranged for the information to be resent and the letters misaddressed to be collected.
The Data Protection Commissioner has also been notified.
"Given the issues at hand for the people concerned with this review, the HSE would like to express its sincere apologies for this error," the spokesman said.
The misdiagnosis scandal comes less than a year after nine patients in the midlands were diagnosed with breast cancer after initially being given the all-clear.
It followed a review of thousands of scans at the Midland Hospital in Portlaoise.
The HSE said the review, being carried out by an expert team of radiologists from Louth, Meath and Northern Ireland, would take eight weeks with this current delay adding to the agonising wait for patients.
The review is focusing on the work of a locum consultant radiologist who was employed for around a year at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda and Our Lady's Hospital, Navan between 2006 and 2007.
A separate review is also being carried out into the misdiagnosis of the four patients who have since died.
The HSE has set up a helpline for concerned patients.
16/05/2008 - 18:41:45
Some 4,500 patients at the centre of a cancer misdiagnoses scare tonight faced a further agonising wait after the Health Service Executive admitted a double blunder.
Letters informing them their chest x-rays were being reviewed following the deaths of four people wrongly given the all-clear for lung cancer have been posted to the wrong addresses, the HSE said.
A private postal firm charged with the task was blamed for the error and health chiefs said the whole process was being restarted.
The HSE admitted the alarming gaffe after Health Minister Mary Harney confirmed 6,000 x-rays from patients in the Louth/Meath area are to be re-examined over concerns about the practices of a radiologist.
"The HSE has learned today that a small number of letters have been misaddressed by the company who undertook this work on our behalf," a spokesperson said.
"The HSE is deeply disappointed at this failure to protect this very sensitive information and is in discussions with the company concerned in this regard."
The health body said it had arranged for the information to be resent and the letters misaddressed to be collected.
The Data Protection Commissioner has also been notified.
"Given the issues at hand for the people concerned with this review, the HSE would like to express its sincere apologies for this error," the spokesman said.
The misdiagnosis scandal comes less than a year after nine patients in the midlands were diagnosed with breast cancer after initially being given the all-clear.
It followed a review of thousands of scans at the Midland Hospital in Portlaoise.
The HSE said the review, being carried out by an expert team of radiologists from Louth, Meath and Northern Ireland, would take eight weeks with this current delay adding to the agonising wait for patients.
The review is focusing on the work of a locum consultant radiologist who was employed for around a year at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda and Our Lady's Hospital, Navan between 2006 and 2007.
A separate review is also being carried out into the misdiagnosis of the four patients who have since died.
The HSE has set up a helpline for concerned patients.
