Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 14 November 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion

9:00 am

Photo of Jack ChambersJack Chambers (Dublin West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Is the HSE doing anything similar to what is being done by the Care Quality Commission in the UK? My question is not whether it exists; it is whether the HSE is developing guidelines on an emerging field of general practice. I was not asking whether it was good or not. I understand the heart failure virtual clinic. However, the flip side of that is how they triage someone who has chest pain. How can that be provided through an online consultation? Is the HSE teasing that out as this emerges, as has been done in the UK? It is not a question whether-----

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