Fergus O'Dowd (Louth, Fine Gael)
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Question 297: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will confirm that the radiology department in the Louth Meath hospital group is sufficiently resourced with consultant radiologists to ensure that significant misdiagnosis of X-rays is no longer occurring; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39762/08]

Fergus O'Dowd (Louth, Fine Gael)
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Question 298: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will confirm that no concerns in relation to the number of radiologists employed in the Louth Meath group have been brought to the attention of the Health Service Executive; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39763/08]

Fergus O'Dowd (Louth, Fine Gael)
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Question 299: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will confirm that no concerns in relation to significant misdiagnosis of X-rays in the Louth Meath hospital group have been expressed to the Health Service Executive since the locum consultant involved in the recent review of chest X-rays left the region; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39764/08]

Fergus O'Dowd (Louth, Fine Gael)
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Question 300: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the radiology department in the Louth Meath group is dependent on locums including external radiologists employed by the Health Service Executive, to report on X-rays due to the workload in the department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39765/08]

Fergus O'Dowd (Louth, Fine Gael)
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Question 301: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the Health Service Executive has been informed by the consultant radiologists in the Louth Meath radiology department that they are experiencing difficulty in coping with the workload in the three hospitals in the group; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39766/08]

Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Progressive Democrats)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 297 to 301, inclusive, together.

The Health Service Executive recently published the Report of the Review of Chest X-Rays and CT Scans reported by a locum consultant radiologist at Louth/Meath Hospitals from August 2006 to August 2007. The Review found that nine patients in Drogheda and Navan hospitals had their diagnosis of lung cancer delayed as a result of radiological missed diagnosis. Eight of these patients are deceased. I have extended my sympathies to the families of these patients. The 9 patients had been identified and diagnosed prior to March 2008. The review did not therefore find any other delayed diagnosis of lung cancers.

My Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division of the Executive to arrange to have the specific issues raised by the Deputy investigated and to have a reply issued directly to him.