Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 23 April 2015
Public Accounts Committee
2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Chapter 14 - Procurement by the Health Service Executive
Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2013
10:00 am
Mr. Pat Healy:
Absolutely. Together on the social care side we are working with Nursing Homes Ireland and our own community nursing units to develop the capacity and approach whereby people will have the confidence and capacity to hydrate and respond to a far greater extent to the needs of older people. Another important part of it is end-of-life care. We will support, in so far as possible, efforts to maintain people in their residences, whether in a community nursing unit or a nursing home, rather than transferring them to hospitals in an end-of-life situation. More and more, with palliative care teams and community intervention teams, we are trying to support such an approach.
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