Keane: ‘Vital that confidence is rebuilt’

RESTORING public confidence in the country’s cancer services is one of the “major jobs” of the new National Cancer Control Strategy, according to its director, Professor Tom Keane.

The newly appointed czar of the country’s services, admitted belief in the system had suffered following the series of misdiagnoses in Cork, Galway and Portlaoise.

Prof Keane told RTÉ Radio there was “an erosion of confidence that people can go into their hospital and get a diagnosis that they can believe in. I believe it is vital that confidence be rebuilt”.