Seanad debates
Wednesday, 16 April 2003
Cancer Treatment Services: Statements (Resumed).
People must realise the Minister of State will not be able to maintain more than a small number of centres. If he is lucky he will have three to start with, but he might never have more than seven or eight. People need to know the difference in survival rates in small centres and large ones. I am not much into league tables but I do think patients are entitled to this information. I am entitled to know whether I will get better care in hospital A than in hospital B. If those sorts of figures were known, people would tend to vote with their feet.
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