Professor Brendan McAdam:

The non-ST-elevation myocardial infarction, NSTEMI, is a significant cause for morbidity and mortality in patients. Usually they are in hospital with other comorbidities. On the provision of service for that type of heart attack, the European Society of Cardiology has recommended that those people get formal assessment and, if necessary, have an angiogram within 24 hours. The data in Ireland that we know about - for example in my own hospital - it could be a week before a person has an angiogram. A person could be sitting around waiting for an angiogram for a week.