'Downgrade' blast over cancer deaths; HEALTH.

Byline: MICHELLE O'KEEFFE

HEALTH chiefs were yesterday accused of using a report into breast cancer misdiagnosis to downgrade a hospital.

The Health Information and Quality Authority found unsafe practices at Ennis General Hospital after two women died despite having been given the all-clear.

Mayor of Clare Madeleine Taylor Quinn said: "The health of thousands of people is being put at risk to enable the HSE and Government to implement an experimental health system, namely the larger centre of care in Limerick." She added the Government and HSE should use the report as a blueprint for future investment in the hospital..