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
John Perry (Sligo-North Leitrim, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source
The big issue, and one of the reasons there are so many people waiting in emergency units, is that the GP will not take any risk. If there is any doubt, he refers the patient to the emergency unit straight away. Will primary care have permanent, credited, certified staff that would be a back-up to the GPs in the centre whereby a qualified nurse could do an ECG, a scan or whatever in the centre, rather than send people to the emergency unit? Will that type of management be in place or will the centre be solely GP-led in the hours they are there?
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