Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 10 April 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Funding and Implementation of the National Cancer Strategy: Discussion

Dr. Triona McCarthy:

Yes. There is Europe's Beating Cancer Plan. It is quite a broad vehicle in terms of collaboration, and there are initiatives in it across prevention and screening. There are lessons to be learned there as regards intelligence. There is a collaboration focusing particularly on cancer inequalities, sharing comparable data across the EU in terms of benchmarking and learning from how we are doing. For example, we are quite good on things like HPV uptake in this country compared with other countries. Our tobacco control is quite good compared with others. Our obesity rates, however, are slightly above those of other counterparts. This gives us that data sharing at that level.

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