Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 4 December 2014

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children

Deep Brain Tissue Treatment: Health Service Executive

10:05 am

Dr. Tony O'Connell:

I will start by talking about savings. The savings I mentioned in my opening statement I compared to the cost of delivering the therapy in the UK.

Doing it on an all-Ireland basis is cheaper than doing it in the UK. That is where the savings come from, but establishing a completely new service as identified in the HIQA HDA would be more expensive because of the set-up costs in Dublin. I will ask Dr. Carroll to answer the specific question about nurses.

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