Diagnostics can help transform the Irish healthcare system

Roche Diagnostics has partnered with CUH Charity to highlight the positive impact that Cork University Hospital (CUH) pediatric services has for children and their families

Leonard Marshall, head of healthcare development at Roche Diagnostics

There’s synergy between Roche and CUH Charity, and in discussing the commonalities between the two, Leonard Marshall, head of healthcare development at Roche Diagnostics told the Irish Examiner: “Our Roche values of ‘doing now, what patients need next’ are reflected in the ambitions of the CUH Charity to enhance and modernise paediatric services at CUH; services that will benefit the patients, their families and the medical teams who work there.”

Explaining the value of diagnostics and how, by playing a greater role in primary and community care services, it can help transform the Irish healthcare system, Marshall says. “when we consider how far we have come over the last 20 months, we can start to really appreciate the value of having diagnostic tests to detect and track SARS-CoV-2.