Mr. Donal Buggy:

We are getting feedback from our daffodil centre nurses, many of whom have worked directly in the acute cancer services in recent months, that there are challenges with communications and logistics, and ensuring patients can continue to get access to the treatments they need to get better. There has been considerable upheaval with the transfer of services from public hospitals into private hospitals. We have patients whom we bring to chemotherapy treatment through our volunteer driving programme who were getting treated in Tullamore. Very quickly that treatment was delivered in the Hermitage hospital just outside Dublin. There are many challenges for patients even understanding the new logistics of their treatment without even getting into the detail of the challenges associated with how they will navigate the health system.