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Could you be a voice for patients in our health care service? In response to the recommendation of the Irish Commission on Patient Safety and Quality Assurance, the HSE is assisting in recruiting an independent network of Patient Safety Champions.

What with miscarriage misdiagnosis, banking reports incriminating politicians, regulators, bankers and more importantly our Taoiseach, and Senators’ expenses making the headlines this week, it has certainly been a week of revelations.

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.