Patients waiting for treatment for a life-threatening cancer will have to wait until the second half of this year to see a specialist - and that is more than two years after a recruitment process began to hire a sarcoma expert. Patients waiting for treatment for a life-threatening cancer will have to wait until the second half of this year to see a specialist - and that is more than two years after a recruitment process began to hire a sarcoma expert. Health officials conducted interviews to fill the position at St Vincent's Hospital, Dublin, last March and offered a contract to the successful candidate. Patients were concerned that they had been treated by oncologists since Ireland's last sarcoma specialist left her role. The previous expert was retained for a further six months while a recruitment process was under way.

Source: Irish Independent January 21, 2018 21:45 UTC