Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 29 May 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Challenges Facing Community-based Cancer Support Services: Discussion

Mr. Conor O'Leary:

To add to Ms Fort's point, the benefit of our services is that they are accessible in the community and very much living up to that primary care model so people can access healthcare needs where they live. People can self-refer when they are in their local villages or local towns where there is a local cancer support centre. They can just pop in, they will be seen and a treatment plan will be gone through with them. That is unique in terms of accessibility for a sector of community-based cancer support centres. The bedrock is volunteerism and community support but it means the most vulnerable in our society who are cancer patients and their families can have that access to the service.

To summarise the reply to that question, it is a number of referral sources and nobody is refused.

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