INO seeks cancer spend breakdown

NURSES at Cork University Hospital (CUH) have called for hospital management to explain how the €25 million allocated to cancer services has been spent in the past three years.

INO seeks cancer spend breakdown

Irish Nurses’ Organisation (INO) representatives have revealed there is great dissatisfaction among oncology nurses at the standards of services provided.

Their criticism follows the publication of a letter sent by CUH medical oncologist Dr Seamus O’Reilly to Tánaiste Mary Harney and Health Service Executive (HSE) in which he said the lack of beds at the hospital meant dying patients were being forced to remain in pain at home.

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