Thank you, we are almost there.

Thank you to everyone who signed our petition. With your continued help we can ensure sarcoma patients receive the best care possible. Please spread the word. Visit http://facebook.com/sarcomaireland ***Update*** **Urgent** We need your help. Patients are in danger!!! Please like and share to spread the word of appalling recruitment procedures at St. Vincent's University Hospital, Dublin. Sarcoma is a rare cancer and can affect anyone. Your help at this critical time may very well benefit you in the future. Please do what you can. After a number of protests and a media campaign to retain a Sarcoma Cancer specialist in St. Vincent's University Hospital Health Minister Simon Harris TD agreed to provide funding for our full-time consultant medical oncologist with a special interest in Sarcoma. Sarcoma Ireland would like to thank the Minister for doing this. However, the HR (Human Resources) department appear to have hijacked the position. We have written to them asking the following - 1) Why the job description has no mention of experience in treating sarcoma patients and be actively engaged in research in this area. 2) Why has a separate medical area of Neuroendocrine tumours been mentioned in the job description? This is not related to sarcoma. 3) Can they provide an assurance that 80% of the workload of the Sarcoma specialist be dedicated to sarcoma patients? 4) Why has the position not been advertised? The position has appeared only on their internal HR system and not publicly on websites that are frequently used by St. Vincent's as well as the HSE and other hospitals. 5) Why was there no job description with the post for almost a week? 6) Why is there conflicting deadlines advertised for the closure of the recruitment process? To be absolutely clear, Sarcoma Ireland, who represents patients and families throughout the country, some of whom have sadly passed, want to be provided with the most experienced sarcoma specialist available. Sarcoma is a rare cancer and a candidate without years of experience and research in this area will lead to more patient deaths. Already we have collected numerous accounts from patients who have deteriorated and some who have died, due to inadequate treatment plans by non-sarcoma specialists. We implore St. Vincent's University Hospital to re-advertise this role with more specific candidate requirements, a stronger emphasis on sarcoma i.e. 80% of their time focused on treating sarcoma patients, and more effective promotion.