Main findings

Main findings of O'Doherty report

• The safety, quality and standard of many aspects of the service at Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise fell well below achievable best practice for breast imaging

• Time that elapsed between the original "false negative" mammogram and the new diagnosis varied between four-and-a-half months and two years, nine months

• The figure of nine misdiagnoses out of the 3,037 mammograms reviewed falls within the acceptable rates

• Quality of the mammograms presented for review was patchy, mostly for technical reasons

• Many of the reports issued on mammography and breast ultrasound at the hospital were difficult to interpret