Seanad debates
Wednesday, 19 February 2003
Cancer Screening Programme: Motion.
Medical professionals have different perspectives on this. I will meet the BreastCheck board, particularly the medical people thereon, because I want to hear why they believe, despite the fact that we have centres of excellence, there should be a ring-fenced continuum in regard to BreastCheck. One would expect that the centres of excellence should be capable of doing some of the work and that those presenting would be given a choice. From BreastCheck's perspective, I can see that there is an issue of quality assurance involved and that it must see matters through to the end of the process. Most people looking at this objectively would say that if we have centres of excellence around the country and have provided significant funding and investment and recruited top class people, surely there should be some synergy between the two, particularly at the treatment phase. That is an issue which is up for discussion.
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