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Cancer Patients in Public Health System Denied Access to Best Available Treatment

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Cancer patients in the public health system are only able to access treatment that their consultants know us just the second best available, the Ipha conference heard. A hospital consultant says he is having to offer his public cancer patients a treatment he knows is just the second best available even though a better alternative is available to private patients in Ireland.

Michael McCarthy, a consultant medical oncologist at University Hospital Galway, said the inequity in access to cutting edge medicines had come about only in the past year as private health insurers agreed to fund medicines for Irish customers once they had been licensed by the European regulator, the European Medicines Agency (EMA), but before a sometimes years long process to become available generally in Ireland

 

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