Status: Closed — this petition is no longer accepting signatures.
Final supporters
Sláinte an Chláir, Clare Cancer Support,
Kilnamona, Ennis, Co Clare, Tel: 087 6912396.
This is a petition promoted by the Clare Cancer Support Centre that provides a range of services to people with cancer and their families throughout Co Clare.
Clare Cancer Support strongly believe that cancer patients and their families throughout Ireland are being limited and hindered in their treatment and recovery due to the issues outlined below.
We now ask our government to provide the following basic benefits
1. A medical card should be allocated to all cancer patients from the time of their diagnosis, with annual review. On completion of their cancer treatment, each person's care needs and personal circumstances should be assessed to ensure each person receives the care and support they need to make as full a recovery from their cancer as possible.
2. If a person living in Clare is being treated for cancer in one of the Galway hospitals and needs emergency care, the ambulance service should be directed to transport the person to the hospital where they are receiving their cancer care in Galway.
3. Cancer care services should communicate regularly with their patients Primary Care Team and in particular the GP and Community Nursing Service to ensure people receive appropriate care and support when they are undergoing cancer treatments
4. Cancer patients should not go through A & E when needing medical attention. They should be admitted directly to the oncology department/ward. (Cancer patients when they spike a temperature have to return to the hospital when undergoing chemo and are currently being put through A & E where there are many with infections etc. )
5. It should be in the charter of every hospital that a patient can have a second opinion without fear of retribution.
6. Parking: One free parking pass be given to each patient during their hospital treatment.
7. The €75 hospital daily rate charge be waived for cancer patients during treatment.
Please sign our petition.
Thank you for your support.
More like this
Award Disability Benefit (PIP) to cancer patients soon after diagnosis
Breast Cancer Survivors want change to new shocking policy
Updates
June 24, 2015
I have been meeting with local families this week who are struggling with the exact gaps in care we are fighting to close. The stories of patients being transported to the wrong facilities are heartbreaking and prove we cannot wait for the government to act on its own. Please send this petition link to three people in your life and call your local TD today to demand these medical card reforms.
June 24, 2015
We hit a significant milestone today that proves the urgency of our demands for better cancer support across Ireland. Post this link on your Facebook wall and send a text to three friends to keep this pressure building. Email your local representative today to insist they back these three essential changes to our care system.
13 Comments
It's the little things that help people that are going through this hard time to make life a little easier for them..
Having the disease & treatment is bad enough in itself, without having to fight for a parking space & having to give one's whole medical history every time something happens. Cancer patients & their families are vulnerable .
We should be doing everything in our power to make life easier for cancer patients.
So very important and the only ones who are speaking out and doing things for cancer patients and survivors. At last we have a voice . Thank you
I completely agree it is incredible that perfectly healthy children and older people are untitled to free medical care and people with cancer are not. When my husband had cancer we got medical card straight away had free parking in Limerick but it cost €13 a day every day in St Vincent's for a month. We did have to check in through A&E but we were sent to 4B straight away, no delay. So eight years on he's fine tg. and I can only say the health system has worsened since.
Great centre,great people there to help anyway they can,please sign
Totally Agree
Share this petition
Share this petition to help it reach more people.
Your share link
Status: Closed — this petition is no longer accepting signatures.
Final supporters
Sláinte an Chláir, Clare Cancer Support,
Kilnamona, Ennis, Co Clare, Tel: 087 6912396.
This is a petition promoted by the Clare Cancer Support Centre that provides a range of services to people with cancer and their families throughout Co Clare.
Clare Cancer Support strongly believe that cancer patients and their families throughout Ireland are being limited and hindered in their treatment and recovery due to the issues outlined below.
We now ask our government to provide the following basic benefits
1. A medical card should be allocated to all cancer patients from the time of their diagnosis, with annual review. On completion of their cancer treatment, each person's care needs and personal circumstances should be assessed to ensure each person receives the care and support they need to make as full a recovery from their cancer as possible.
2. If a person living in Clare is being treated for cancer in one of the Galway hospitals and needs emergency care, the ambulance service should be directed to transport the person to the hospital where they are receiving their cancer care in Galway.
3. Cancer care services should communicate regularly with their patients Primary Care Team and in particular the GP and Community Nursing Service to ensure people receive appropriate care and support when they are undergoing cancer treatments
4. Cancer patients should not go through A & E when needing medical attention. They should be admitted directly to the oncology department/ward. (Cancer patients when they spike a temperature have to return to the hospital when undergoing chemo and are currently being put through A & E where there are many with infections etc. )
5. It should be in the charter of every hospital that a patient can have a second opinion without fear of retribution.
6. Parking: One free parking pass be given to each patient during their hospital treatment.
7. The €75 hospital daily rate charge be waived for cancer patients during treatment.
Please sign our petition.
Thank you for your support.
Updates
June 24, 2015
I have been meeting with local families this week who are struggling with the exact gaps in care we are fighting to close. The stories of patients being transported to the wrong facilities are heartbreaking and prove we cannot wait for the government to act on its own. Please send this petition link to three people in your life and call your local TD today to demand these medical card reforms.
June 24, 2015
We hit a significant milestone today that proves the urgency of our demands for better cancer support across Ireland. Post this link on your Facebook wall and send a text to three friends to keep this pressure building. Email your local representative today to insist they back these three essential changes to our care system.
13 Comments
The situation with regard to medical cards for cancer patients is a disgrace. From initially being refused a card to it being taken off of me a week before a major operation, it made an extremely bad situation so much more stressful. Being told to pay for the operation my self, didn't held either.
It's the little things that help people that are going through this hard time to make life a little easier for them..
Having the disease & treatment is bad enough in itself, without having to fight for a parking space & having to give one's whole medical history every time something happens. Cancer patients & their families are vulnerable .
We should be doing everything in our power to make life easier for cancer patients.
So very important and the only ones who are speaking out and doing things for cancer patients and survivors. At last we have a voice . Thank you
I completely agree it is incredible that perfectly healthy children and older people are untitled to free medical care and people with cancer are not. When my husband had cancer we got medical card straight away had free parking in Limerick but it cost €13 a day every day in St Vincent's for a month. We did have to check in through A&E but we were sent to 4B straight away, no delay. So eight years on he's fine tg. and I can only say the health system has worsened since.
Great centre,great people there to help anyway they can,please sign
Totally Agree
Share this petition
Share this petition to help it reach more people.
Your share link
Petitions like this
Other petitions you might want to support
Scan to share
Anyone who scans this can sign the petition.
The situation with regard to medical cards for cancer patients is a disgrace. From initially being refused a card to it being taken off of me a week before a major operation, it made an extremely bad situation so much more stressful. Being told to pay for the operation my self, didn't held either.