By Paul Thornton
A SERIES of radiation blunders at Scotland’s largest cancer treatment centre went unpunished and unreported to professional regulators.
Mistakes with radiotherapy happened on a regular basis with a “significant” number of “critical events” at The Beatson West of Scotland Cancer Centre.
The centre was previously criticised over the death of teenager Lisa Norris, from Girvan in Ayrshire, who was given 19 radiation overdoses in January 2006 when she received 58 per cent more radiation than she should have.
But evidence at a former radiographer’s disciplinary hearing last week revealed that a culture of cover-ups went on at the centre months after Lisa’s death.
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