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University Hospital Galway has been forced to slash its budget for aggressive cancer treatment for end of life patients by €3 million in a bid to address the €22 million overall budget deficit it is facing this year, a local politician has claimed.

The chairperson of the HSE West’s regional health forum is calling for the health authority to fasttrack the appointment of a new manager for University Hospital Galway in the wake of the facility’s poor showing in the HSE’s latest league tables.

The HSE was last evening attempting to contact all patients affected by potential misdiagnoses at UHG following reports of discrepancies in the work of a third pathologist who worked as a locum at the hospital in February and March 2004.

The number of patients availing of breast care services annually at University Hospital Galway has almost doubled in the past four years.

The retiring hospital manager of University Hospital Galway has said she fears the hospital will no longer be able to function as one of eight designated cancer care centres.

Concerns raised by the general manager of University Hospital Galway that the facility cannot function as a centre of excellence due to financial cutbacks as well as its effects on patient care were a “damning indictment”, the chairman of the HSE West’s regional health forum said this week.