Documents and Reports about Cancer Services
Posted by info on 18 Sep 2008 at 07:28 pm | Tagged as: Health, Sligo Cancer Services
Letter received by Senator Deirdre De Burca from Mary Harney TD in relation to likely impact on Sligo General Hospital and Patients (Oct 2008).
Position Paper prepared by the Hospital Management Committee
The following letter was sent to Prof. Tom Keane by the Hospital Management Committee at SGH in May this year.
It contains information that may interest readers in relation to the situation at Sligo re. Cancer Services.
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A Strategy for Cancer Control in Ireland
This is the report on which the changes at Sligo are based. It was prepared by the National Cancer Forum, which is a body made up of entirely of Medical professionals, nominated to the Forum by associations such as the Royal College of Surgeons, the Irish Cancer Society and the Minister for Health and Children.
This report specifies that each Centre of Excellence should serve a minimum population of 500k people, and that there should be ‘about 8′ centres in Ireland. It does not specify the locations. These were chosen by the HSE.
National Quality Assurance Standards for Symptomatic Breast Disease Services
This report was produced by the leading Breast Surgeon, Prof. Niall O’Higgins in 2006. It states that a Centre of Excellence for Breast Surgery should serve a minimum populatin of 300 to 350k people, that it should be equipped to deal with 150 new cancer cases each year and that it should be staffed by a minimum of 2 experienced Breast Surgeons.