Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 14 July 2020
Special Committee on Covid-19 Response
Non-Covid Healthcare Disruption: Mental Health Services (Resumed)
Dr. Amir Niazi:
I am coming to the Deputy's question. We had the acute units and we had the day centres. We are now trying to open up day hospitals to achieve a stepping down from acute admission facilities. We want most of our day centres to be community resource facilities whereas the day hospitals will have a very targeted approach to admissions. Instead of having patients proceed straight to admission with nothing in the middle, we are trying to introduce the day hospital model as a multidisciplinary model to address the gap. That is the answer. We are trying to move to day centres to step down from acute admissions.
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