Ray O Sullivan
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Consultant who carried out research on women without consent put on leave
- Health
- August 9, 2019, 04:00
A consultant at St Luke’s Hospital, Kilkenny, who carried out research on five women patients without their consent, has been placed on administrative(...)

Without consent: Five women who had gynaecological work to be contacted
- Health
- June 25, 2019, 01:00
Women who underwent gynaecological “exploratory work” without their consent at St Luke’s Hospital, Kilkenny, are being contacted by the hospital grou(...)

Kilkenny hospital to appoint extra obstetrician to facilitate abortions
- Health
- June 24, 2019, 17:42
An additional obstetrician is to be appointed to St Luke’s Hospital in Kilkenny as part of the rollout of abortion services to its maternity unit. Th(...)

Women unaware experimental procedure was to be carried out
- Health
- June 24, 2019, 03:54
Consent is a central principle of healthcare and medical research globally. Patients have to be in a position to give informed consent to any treatmen(...)

Gynaecologist performed ‘exploratory work’ without consent
- Health
- June 24, 2019, 03:38
A report into the failure of a senior hospital consultant at St Luke’s Hospital, Kilkenny, to obtain consent before carrying out gynaecological “explo(...)

‘Most people’ unaware of equal HPV risk to men and women
- Health
- September 3, 2018, 01:00
Almost two-thirds of people do not realise that males and females are at equal risk of HPV (human papillomavirus) infection, according to new research(...)

Google and Facebook continue to have too much power
- Media & Marketing
- May 10, 2018, 06:00
It is no exaggeration to say that a key political narrative of the past three years has been the extent to which two of the biggest companies in the w(...)

Most Irish people ‘unaware’ of HPV cancer link
- Health & Family
- March 5, 2018, 01:07
Most Irish people are unaware the human papillomavirus (HPV) can cause cancer or that a vaccine exists to prevent these forms of the disease, accordin(...)

‘Triple whammy’ blamed for spike in trolley patients in Kilkenny hospital
- Health
- January 11, 2018, 01:00
A “triple whammy” of bed cuts, GP cuts and restricted access has been blamed for high numbers of patients waiting on trolleys at St Luke’s Hospital in(...)

‘He took out my womb and threw it in a bucket on the floor’
- Health
- July 21, 2015, 13:06
A Medical Council inquiry has resumed into allegations of poor professional performance by a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist, Dr Peter Van G(...)