Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 1 February 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Cancer Treatment Services: Discussion

Professor Riste?rd ? Laoide:

Yes. It is a difficult balancing message when emergency departments are crowded. Mr. Kidd might comment on this. The message from the national cancer control programme is that anyone with symptoms of cancer needs to go to their primary care giver, that is, their general practitioner. The well known symptoms of cancer are something we try to get out there, and as members said, we need to do more on that. The general practitioners know that they can get access to the rapid access clinics that we have available for them.

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