Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Friday, 17 July 2020

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response

Non-Covid Healthcare Disruption: Waiting Lists and Screening (Resumed)

Mr. Liam Woods:

I am saying that a tender is being put in place. We will have a decision to make at the beginning. The Deputy is asking what the unit of purchase is, whether clusters of product or so on. In areas such as that of radiology, the contract will most likely be set out by modality.

Other areas are MRI and CT and, perhaps, packages. It depends a little on how the market responds.

The Deputy also asked whether we ask what is the value of what we have previously acquired. This is something that will happen in the future with regard to this contract because we have not yet entered into it. From our point of view, we understand this in terms of the clinical outcomes, patients treated and the overall clinical benefit. From our perspective, the future value consideration will be about what work got done, what benefit it brought to patients and whether it supported the provision of GP diagnostics.

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