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Hospital bids for colonoscopy status 11.07.12

LETTERKENNY General Hospital management are in the final stages of preparing a submission to enable it become a screening colonoscopy centre as part of the National Cancer Screening Service. The move has been welcomed by Co-Operating for Cancer Care North West who received the information recently.
The group's spokesperson, Noelle Duddy, said: "Management is optimistic that the bid will receive a favourable response and that once the bid has been accepted work will commence to upgrade its colonoscopy facilities to satisfy the NCSS standards and, following this, Letterkenny will be awarded full accreditation as a screening colonoscopy unit.
"We are pleased to learn from management at LGH that it is performing very well in reducing its waiting lists for routine symptomatic colonoscopies and is confident that it will be able to meet NCSS targets of patients being seen within 13 weeks from time of referral by the end of September, the date when the 13-week target commences."
Noelle Duddy.
Letterkenny is one of 15 candidate hospitals initially selected to provide screening colonoscopies. Colonoscopy is an examination of the large bowel to detect cancer and other medical conditions.
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