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Thu 03 Mar 2010Failure to open GP referrals 'unacceptable' - Harney
Tallaght hospital has said that an estimation by Trinity College Dublin public health specialist Prof Tom O'Dowd that 30,000 GP referral letters were unopened was incorrect.
In a statement tonight, the hospital said: "There was never anything like 30,000 unprocessed letters. All GP referral letters are opened on receipt and processed according to speciality".
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