Admit It, Harney. We Have Centres, but Not of Excellence - and There Are Too Few of Them [Eire Region]
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NORMALLY, I wear my bra close to my chest so to speak. But today, with hundreds of others, I will be hanging mine on the railings of Brian Cowen's office to let him know that his much vaunted cancer services programme is not working. And there is evidence aplenty of its failure.
When Professor Tom Keane announced the centres of excellence theory for cancer care, many people sighed with relief. There was general consent that cancer treatment needed to be upgraded and that better results for patients would follow.See the full content of this document
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Admit It, Harney. We Have Centres, but Not of Excellence - and There Are Too Few of Them [Eire Region]
We all know people who have died from cancer so it has become the most emotive word. Any government recognising and offering a better service to save lives and improve treatment was surely on a winner. That was in September 2007.
Failure Of course, the location of the eight centres of excellence was a political fight to the death between individual hos...See the full content of this document
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