Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 11 November 2021
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
Delays in Accessing Scoliosis Treatment and Surgery: Discussion
Mr. Liam Woods:
Can I come in there? Very briefly, not to waste the Deputy’s time, we are doing a service plan of the HSE right now based on the recent budget. All the decisions for 2022 are in the context of that service plan. Some proposals that Ms Hardiman has referred to that have already been signed off under the access to care programme. They are already commencing. Others are a matter for the service and capital plan of the HSE, which has to be completed by the end of this month and submitted to the Minister. That is the approval process. Within that, there is also further funding of €200 million for access to care programme-type projects. Paediatrics, scoliosis, and indeed paediatric orthopaedics would be high priority within that.
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