Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 30 March 2021
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
Operation of the Medical Card Scheme: Discussion
Mr. Shaun Flanagan:
The system is a certification system by a treating consultant. The HSE does not see itself as getting into dispute with treating consultants around prognosis. We accept it is a fairly challenging issue to try to estimate a prognosis of two years or less, particularly for different diseases and so on. If a treating consultant certifies that it is 24 months, we will accept that is his or her expert opinion.
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