INVESTIGATION REVEALS CANCER MISDIAGNOSIS AT UHG COULD HAVE BEEN AVOIDED

Date Published: 15-Jul-2008

An investigation into the misdiagnosis of a woman with breast cancer at University Hospital Galway has found that the mistakes may not have happened if a multi-disciplinary review system was in place.The Health Information and Quality Authority says the woman, Ms A, was misdiagnosed twice by two different pathologists at UHG in 2005 and 2007.Ms A was a patient at Barrington's private hospital in Limerick, but her pathology samples were sent to UHG for analysis.Director of Healthcare Quality with HIQA, Jon Billings, is paying tribute to Ms A for allowing her case to be reviewed for the good of others.