Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 6 November 2014

Public Accounts Committee

Special Report No. 83 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Managing Elective Day Surgery

11:00 am

Dr. Tony O'Connell:

It is clearly both. The individual surgeons would articulate the quality and safety perspectives louder, but the whole environment is clearly at issue. They need to feel comfortable about the nurses who would be discharging the patient from the ward and about the referral pathways back to the hospital, as I said. The whole environment in which surgeons are working needs to be conducive to this significant change in behaviour for what is ultimately 90% of tonsillectomies.

Comments

No comments

Log in or join to post a public comment.