Major gaps in private hospital system

There are “very significant gaps” in the private hospital provision of cancer, cardiac, and orthopaedic services across the southern region.

People with private health insurance who live in the Cork catchment area are getting less value for money than those who live in Dublin and Galway.

And Cork is the only city in Ireland which has a designated cancer centre but does not have a private radiotherapy service. This is despite its catchment area accounting for 22% of all cancers diagnosed nationally.