Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 22 October 2015

Public Accounts Committee

Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2014
2014 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 39: Health Service Executive
Chapter 19: Compliance with Prompt Payment Legislation in the Health Sector
Chapter 20: Management of Private Patient Income in the Health Sector
Chapter 21: Control over the Supply of High-Tech Drugs and Medicines

10:00 am

Mr. John Hennessy:

Absolutely. What the Deputy has described sums up the thrust of the overall direction of the health services, which is to reduce the reliance and dependence that many people have on the acute hospital system, particularly on emergency departments, and to move as much of that routine activity out of the hospital environment and into primary care. The big opportunities would the ones the Deputy mentioned, particularly regarding access to primary diagnostics and perhaps also in the area of management of chronic illness conditions in primary care.

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