HSE and Health Department fail to give spending figures for cancer services

The reduced cancer mortality rate reflects improvements in diagnosis and treatments, which does highlight the benefit of investments in the likes of screening and medicines, the report said.

The HSE and Department of Health could not provide data on service-level spending figures on cancer services in Ireland when asked, a new report has said.

This means Ireland cannot “comprehensively link investment with performance or outcomes”, the independent Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) said.