Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 13 October 2020
530. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the number of cancer patients that saw a consultant in the first nine months of 2019 compared to the same period in 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30152/20]
View answerThe number of patients who attended Symptomatic Breast Disease Clinics, Lung Rapid Access Clinics and Prostate Rapid Access Clinics in January/August 2019 and 2020 is set out below. These clinics operate in each of the 8 designated cancer centres (with a Symptomatic Breast Disease Clinic also in Letterkenny University Hospital as a satellite of University Hospital Galway). The HSE's National Cancer Control Programme advises that data on the number of patients who saw a consultant at symptomatic cancer clinics for other tumour types is not currently available.
Data for 2020 is available up to and including August and so the figures below compare the first 8 months of 2019 with the first 8 months of 2020.
|
Clinic |
Jan - Aug 2019 |
Jan - Aug 2020* |
|
Symptomatic Breast Clinics - Urgent |
14,127 |
12,361 |
|
Symptomatic Breast Clinics - Non-Urgent |
14,717 |
9,528 |
|
Rapid Access Lung Clinics |
2,412 |
2,145 |
|
Rapid Access Prostate Clinics |
2,670 |
1,983 |
* The more recent 2020 data is subject to final verification.
