Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 18 October 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Quarterly Update On Health Issues: Discussion

9:00 am

Mr. Liam Woods:

The tender and the engagement of hospitals outside of Ireland in the treatment of scoliosis was completed. Three hospitals were successful, St. Franziskus-Hospital, Münster, Germany, Capio Polyclinique du Parc, France, and Portland Hospital in London. We are already working with Stanmore in London, which is a public facility and we can trade on a parallel basis with it. There are four external facilities, as well as our own in Cappagh, the Mater, Temple Street and Crumlin. Outpatient clinics are being arranged and, in some cases, have been arranged. We had to cancel one on Monday for obvious reasons. They have been arranged to clinically assess the appropriate location of treatment for the children in question. This week, two children will be treated in Germany. The three tenders were completed last month and will now wrap up in terms of delivering care.

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