Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 2 July 2025
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion
2:00 am
Dr. Colm Henry:
We run three types of rapid access clinics nationwide. One is on prostate cancer and our metric is the percentage seen within 20 working days of referral. We are at over 90% for that metric. The second is in lung cancer. We are a little bit below the target there. With breast cancer, we are running at 76%. There is some regional variation there. I think the clinic that pertains to Letterkenny is the breast cancer urgent referral. We are short of our target. We work with the local to in make sure we get people within that target or as close to it as possible given the urgency of the situation. I am not sure of the exact metric for Letterkenny hospital. Nationwide we are falling a little bit short of our expected target.
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