Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 23 October 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Issues and Challenges relating to Cardiology: Irish Cardiac Society

9:30 am

Dr. Niamh Murphy:

Yes, more capacity. Per million of population, we have a need for one cardiac MR scanner and one cardiac CT scanner to fund it. At the moment we have very limited access. At a hospital like the Mater, which serves a huge population we do about six cardiac MRs per week. That translates to about 200 per year. An equivalent hospital in the UK is doing about 4,000 MR scans per year.