Exclusive: Urgent reviews underway as cancer referrals caught up in Encompass IT problems - MLA brands failings 'horrific'
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Exclusive: Urgent reviews underway as cancer referrals caught up in Encompass IT problems - MLA brands failings 'horrific'

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Urgent reviews are underway in the health service after failures in a new IT system meant thousands of urgent referral decisions – including on suspected cancer cases – were not communicated to patients’ doctors, the News Letter can reveal.