Donegal Action for Cancer Care
“Equal Access for Equal Need”
Mr. Maurice Power,
Group CEO,
Saolta University Health Care Group,
University Hospital Galway,
Newcastle Road,
Galway.
15th May 2017
Re: NOT meeting DACC while at LUH on Friday 12th May!!!
DACC requesting urgent meeting at LUH with Saolta University Hospital Group & others.
Dear Maurice,
It is with very much upset & disappointment that we learn that you were able to meet Donegal Oireachtas Members at Letterkenny University Hospital on Friday past and not DACC!!!
We are very annoyed!!
Maurice after you taking the time at Altnagelvin Hospital on Tuesday to come over to Rose & I and update us on the position of recruiting a 2 nd Breast Surgeon for LUH, who it was going to be and how this person would soon be in place. We really appreciated that. And when I asked you about the meeting you said “it would be best to wait till the 2nd Breast Surgeon was all finalised”.
Has the NCCP approved this position now? I know you said they had but is this certain?
And Maurice you never once mentioned a planned meeting with the Oireachtas Members at LUH 3 days later!! All this despite Minister Harris telling us on the 13th March that he would arrange a meeting for us all with Saolta University Health Care Group in the next couple of weeks!!!
So why were Donegal Action for Cancer Care excluded by Saolta Group from this meeting? Answer please.
DACC -we are intelligent, have working brains, do all our work voluntary & give our time 7 days a week with NO PAY, NO TRAVEL, NO PENSIONS!!Most of us have serious health issues.
We have worked free of any charge without any financial benefit of any kind for over 12 long years and we will continue to do!!!
As you are aware we had written to you by letter on the 2nd May requesting
DACC requesting urgent meeting at LUH with Saolta University Hospital Group & others.
We also wrote to you by letter on the 5th May and in that letter we also referred to a date for the meeting.
So Mr. Power as CEO of Saolta University Health Care Group we are now again requesting a meeting with you all at Letterkenny University Hospital as a matter of urgency.
For DACC there are many concerns the 2nd Breast Surgeon for LUH being one of them.
Indeed ye the Saolta Group have a list of some of those questions & concerns for a very long period of time.
We expect a meeting date at LUH with the Saolta University Health Care Group & Mr Jerome Coffey NCCP very soon as agreed with Minister Harris.
It will not be necessary to wait for a Monday or Friday meeting date as the Donegal Oireachtas Members have had a meeting. They are still more than welcome at any meeting we are having with the Saolta Group.
We will work around any date & time but it really must be very soon. We are available from 9am to 6pm daily.
Thank you.
Yours sincerely.
Betty Holmes
CC: Minister for Health, Mr. Simon Harris TD. Mr. Michael Conroy, Dept. of Health.
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