TDs last chance to save cancer hospital

HEALTH Minister Mary Harney justifies her decision to choose St James’s Hospital as a cancer centre of excellence over St Luke’s in Rathgar on the grounds that “experts” advised her to do this.

I have the marks of these experts obtained under the Freedom of Information Act. Overall, the experts gave St Luke’s a weighted mark of 3,965. They gave 8,897 marks to St James’s.

Marks given for quality of cancer service delivery are unbelievable to me as a St Luke’s patient — 909 for St Luke’s as opposed to 1,362 for St James’s.