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New screening lab

Dingle_berry · 2013-04-22 16:44:53

I saw this article on the journal.ie and found it quite annoying! http://www.thejournal.ie/medlab-pathology-laboratory-cervical-bowel-check-878839-Apr2013/ Those samples were being processed here in Ireland 5 years ago. 100% of them. The then government exported the specimens, shut down labs and redeployed highly skilled…

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Dingle_berry

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I saw this article on the journal.ie and found it quite annoying! http://www.thejournal.ie/medlab-pathology-laboratory-cervical-bowel-check-878839-Apr2013/

Those samples were being processed here in Ireland 5 years ago. 100% of them. The then government exported the specimens, shut down labs and redeployed highly skilled staff. I doubt how any real savings could be made with staff still being employed, a private company contracted to do the tests with a massively increased transport cost. Not to mention the students who were in college studying to do this work and subsequently had to re-train. Irish training programmes like the pathology NCHD lost out. Now they are happy that 50% of the work will be done privately in Ireland. Without the highly experienced staff that were redeployed and with profits going to the US and Australia.

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