Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 19 September 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Clinical Guidelines for the Introduction of Abortion Services: Discussion

9:00 am

Dr. Clíona Murphy:

On stakeholders' meeting, there has been something of a Venn diagram with some stakeholders meeting together - we have certainly met the Irish College of General Practitioners, ICGP, several times - but the Department of Health has not necessarily been at all those meetings and nor has the HSE. We really need for the Department of Health, the HSE and clinical stakeholders to get together. That entire group has not sat down together for a significant period. The IFPA, which has a lot of experience in delivering crisis pregnancy services over and above hospital consultants, for example, have not been invited to as many meetings as it should have. We believe it should be involved more in the process.

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