Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 2 June 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Impact of Covid-19 on Cancer Services: Discussion

Dr. Clive Kilgallen:

Yes, and I thank the Deputy. In summary, she said it was stark but in some ways, a great deal of good work is being done behind the scenes. In the faculty of pathology, for instance, we have the histopathology quality assurance programme, where we look at all of the blocks and quality data. That is one example of the quality initiatives that are happening behind the scenes almost under the radar and that are working very well. It is stark but given the fact that our healthcare system was struggling previously and now we are hitting a crisis, this is the time to do a systems reset and to rethink what we are doing. Let us do it as we know what we need to do. We have the will and we need the capacity, we know what we need to do and now is the time to do it. We can use this combined Covid-19 pandemic and cyberattack to do this.

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