Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 22 February 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion

1:30 pm

Mr. Liam Woods:

At the moment that work is feeding into capacity deliberations, as the Deputy describes. The Director General referred to the need to look at models of care, and where care can best be provided. It may be possible in the future to provide the vast bulk of services such as ophthalmology in the community. Work is under way doing the kind of modelling the Deputy refers to. The use of that data is to bring it from a theoretical, mathematical place to identifying the sort of service we need, and the volumes, and then feed that into the capacity work that is currently under way. It informs the plan.

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