Universities to provide more radiation therapy educational places in response to a lack of staff
Credit: aecc.ac.uk | Universities to increase radiation therapy training places
Following information that there was a crisis in the field at a meeting with the minister of higher education this week, two institutions have decided to enhance the number of spots available for radiation therapy training.
Presently, 130 patients are denied radiation therapy per day; one of the main causes of this delay is a lack of trained personnel.
Simon Harris and officials from UCC, University Hospital Galway, and Trinity College Dublin met recently to talk about the problems related to radiation therapy.
He was informed that, crucial to national cancer policies, there was a problem in the recruitment and retention of radiation therapy professionals.
Cork North Central TD Colm Burke arrange...
