A hospital in Ireland is accused of ignoring more than 30,000 patient referral letters.

Proffessor Tom O'Dowd, GP of Tallaght Hospital and Trinity College Dublin public health specialist, claims thousand of referral letters were left, unopened, around the hospital in 2009. O'Dowd estimates the number of unopened letters could be as high as 30,000. O'Dowd says in April 2009 a manager at the hospital told him that "two years of GP referral letters" had not been opened or reached the consultant for whom they were addressed. 

Tallaght Hospital released a statement disputing O'Dowd's claims. The hospital said in there statement that there "was never anything like 30,000 unprocessed letters… All GP referral letters are opened on receipt and processed according to speciality… In October 2009, action was taken to clear a backlog of 3,498 letters which had not been reviewed by a consultant. All of these are now actively being dealt with."

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