Results 641-645 of 645 for speaker:Donna McGettigan
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Current Issues Relating to Health Services for Cancer: Discussion (22 Oct 2025)
- Donna McGettigan: That is okay. It is just one of those cases that happens and it is replicated. However, I think the electronic health record will help. One hospital is not talking to another hospital and that is a bit issue. Once again, we are not talking about going out to court but there has to be somebody there to say sorry. That is not happening because nobody is taking responsibility. 
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Current Issues Relating to Health Services for Cancer: Discussion (22 Oct 2025)
- Donna McGettigan: I thank the officials for coming in today. On earlier diagnosis, I would like to talk about lobular cancer. It accounts for 10% of breast cancer cases. The problem is that when you have dense breasts, this cancer is very hard to detect. Women are going for mammograms and being told they are all clear. They are then leaving and not realising that they could have cancer within them. They... 
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Current Issues Relating to Health Services for Cancer: Discussion (22 Oct 2025)
- Donna McGettigan: Clinicians cannot see anything in the mammogram, through no fault of their own, because the density of the breast is not showing it. 
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Current Issues Relating to Health Services for Cancer: Discussion (22 Oct 2025)
- Donna McGettigan: That is not happening, according to the women I spoke to. It is usually too late by the time they actually get their MRI scan. Earlier, I spoke about my husband. He went from doctor to doctor and hospital to hospital. When will electronic health records help in that regard, because it did not seem like two doctors or two hospitals were talking to each other? 
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Current Issues Relating to Health Services for Cancer: Discussion (22 Oct 2025)
- Donna McGettigan: Are we talking about 2030 for implementation? 
