STANDARDS governing communications between GPs and hospitals have been announced to preventing a repeat of the debacle at Tallaght hospital where thousands of GP referral letters went unanswered.

The GP has ‘tried to speak to specialist/admissions unit to refer but was unable to get through’; The GP has spoken to the specialist or admissions unit but was told to send the patient to A&E. It ...

Cardiologist who sent a LETTER to an elderly woman's doctor warning him about her poor health is criticised after she dies before the note even arrived ...

A GP WAS yesterday accused of lying at the inquest into the death of a schoolboy whose treatable illness was missed by doctors.

A LEADING north-east GP has claimed patient referral letters are being left unopened across the country to help hospitals avoid waiting list-related fines.

People in Oxford have received official letters threatening to remove them from the care of their local doctors unless they send back personal information. More than 300 households in the city ...

BACKGROUND:Referral letters getting lost in the system was a recurring problem for at least the past five years at Tallaght, say doctors THE CASE that precipitated a family doctor writing to ...