Rose Conway Walsh (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I do not want to concentrate only on screening but the difficulty is when they go back and say they have symptoms and this is ignored and ignored and then they find out they have cancer. The difficulty in misdiagnosis to which I refer is the number of people who are turned away from hospitals; these are people who present and are told to go home, and they present again because of symptoms and this can go on over weeks. I have been to funerals where this has happened where I was told that people were turned away from hospitals. I am worried that because of staff shortages, ambulances lining up and all those things, vital diagnoses are being missed out on and people are losing their lives.