Ireland reviews X-ray reporting policy, as 58,000-backlog investigation continues
This article was originally published in Clinica
Executive Summary
It will take around 10 weeks to complete a review of the outstanding 23,000 "unreported" X-ray plates at Dublin's Tallaght Hospital. So concluded the Department of Health and Children (DoHC) in an update of this week's revelation that a backlog of up to around 58,000 had built up in recent years (www.clinica.co.uk, 10 March 2010).