Women who suffered delayed cancer diagnosis at Letterkenny University Hospital were wrongly triaged and not booked in for follow-up appointments in some cases, a damning review of its gynaecological services has found. “With specific reference to the cases which triggered this review, the common theme was delay in diagnosis,” the report found. There were 133 women diagnosed with endometrial cancer at Letterkenny University Hospital between 2010 and last year, with 38 patients waiting longer than 100 days from initial referral to diagnosis. Tony Canavan, CEO of Saolta, said management and medics are “working very hard to improve the service provided at the hospital”. Seán Murphy, manager at Letterkenny University Hospital, also apologised to women “where the care provided to them fell short of the standards that they should expect”.

Source: The Irish Times August 26, 2020 23:03 UTC