Following on from cases of people having stomachs removed in error last year, we find the following story from the Irish Healthcare system where the quality of information used to tell women whether they had or didn’t have breast cancer didn’t meet or exceed expectations (was plain wrong) and now all tests have to be reviewed.

This is an illness that, if caught early, is treatable but if it is left to take hold the treatment becomes more invasive (maestectomy) and the risk of the cancer spreading to other parts of the body increases.

The cost and risk of non-quality information here is immense.