Labour’s Health Spokesperson Duncan Smith TD announces the introduction of the Health Screening Leave Bill, aiming to provide all workers with paid time off for cancer scans, recognising the critical importance of early detection of cancer
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Orla Tinsley: Competing to stay alive should not be our reality, but it is irishtimes.com/health/your-we…

Vicki O'Mahony -Vaccine👍COVAX👍CTAP👍TRIPSwaiver Neasa Hourigan TD Pallavi Devulapalli Talk is cheap. Schools do not have filtration systems. Install them. The Irish plan is to ‘open the windows’. Not good enough. Masks are still not being used in healthcare settings even when we know c19 cases are on the upswing and risk is higher. Actions. Actions . Actions count

This makes me so sad 😞
We literally cannot provide radiotherapy to anyone without #RTT radiation therapists! Voices aren’t being heard…and neither are feet it seems… #patientadvocate groups we need you @hsenccp HSE Ireland Simon Harris TD 📣Help!

It is true that the NCCP have made major strides in delivering the National Cancer Strategy in recent years.

These strides were made during the 2 years that the NCCP had a budget for implementing new service developments.

A key current problem is that the NCCP had no

Covid is not gone away.
Over 250 deaths so far this year.
I'm old enough to remember when 100 flu deaths were worth reporting 😔
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Clinical trials are so important to offer patients tomorrow's treatment today.
This is why funding our National Cancer Strategy is so important. Stephen Donnelly Simon Harris TD
A wonderful example highlighted for CML blood cancer 👇

I've been saying this for 10 years:
Stephen Donnelly said in his view Ireland is a 'laggard' when it comes to clinical trials for cancer treatments.
While Ireland talks 'a good talk' on the issue, in his view 'we don't have the infrastructure we need'.

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PLEASE LISTEN 🧵
This is Prof Ronan Collins Dr.Ronan collins (National Clinical Lead Stroke) scathing criticism of Dept of Health/HSE Ireland treatment of 850,000 people in Ireland living with neurology/neurodegenerative conditions and the moratorium on recruitment …

I do not support any political party.

Our oncology dayward is currently 5 nurses understaffed. We cannot hire new nurses because of the embargo. We need new nurses.

This has not hit the headlines, because the nurses in our dayward are excellent, and have excellent leadership

Where you live can signal if you are more likely to die of cancer, as new figures show five-year survival rates in the most deprived areas are still just 59pc – 9pc lower than in affluent parts of the country

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V Talented #Disabled Student & Artist -Completely Failed by ⁦NCAD⁩ -Student Applied Good Faith thru CAO & Awarded Place on Merit/Portfolio. Exciting 3rd Level Journey Shattered -Treated Shamefully & Utterly Failed by NCAD - Urgent Audit & Review of Ableism Required

Very important cancer event in Dublin today.
You can watch live 👇

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30% of all deaths in Ireland from cancer. New report.
Mark Lawler
'Government’s failure to provide any new recurrent development funding for the National Cancer Strategy in 2023 or 2024 has widened this 9% survival gap even further.'
europeancancer.org/pulse

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The report from the European Cancer Organisation (ECO) and the Irish Cancer Society found cancer responsible for 30% of deaths in the country each year.
Letter from leading cancer experts highlight our failures
David Cullinane T.D.
Róisín Shortall
Denis Naughten Ivana Bacik

Cancer is the 'single biggest killer' in Ireland with more than 9,600 deaths a year, according to a new report. 
The government needs to make cancer a priority and start by funding the National Cancer Strategy.
Simon Harris TD
Stephen Donnelly
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Must-watch interview. Remarkable women.

Aoife Johnston “beyond cure” when finally given antibiotics she needed 13.5 hours after arrival at “chaotic” #Limerick Hospital #ED - my Drivetime RTE Roundup of Day 2 Inquest Evidence #podcast HERE RTÉ Radio 1 rte.ie/radio/radio1/c…