Dr. Laura Durcan:

To be fair we actually have a huge issue in that we have nowhere to put a lot of those patients who are already on biological and chemo therapies. The service as it stands has nowhere to put those patients. We are having a huge change around to try to establish which patients are on the most toxic medications so we can pull them out and they can be seen safely. There is the clinical risk for those who have not yet been seen, which is huge, and there is also the clinical risk for those people who are already established patients of a service, who will also not be seen in their follow-up appointments. Both of those are really dreadful scenarios when someone leaves a post. It is what happens when any post is emptied anywhere in the country. This is what one is left with; the new cases and also all of the returned patients who have a diagnosis. It is dreadful.