Ms Magdalen Rogers:

There is a very well-functioning team in the mid-west neuro-rehabilitation team. That has been functioning for over ten or 15 years now. As Professor Hardiman said, that is a critical part of the overall success of neurological care in the mid-west. It is critical to the neurology services and community services for people with neurological conditions. That is one team. There is also a team in the north west of the country. Again, once they are working well these community neuro-rehabilitation teams make an enormous difference. They are a point of contact for hospitals discharging patients but they also provide that maintenance of people with neurological conditions in the community without them deteriorating or needing a succession of hospital admissions. The teams are a hub for so many services referring into them and for keeping people with neurological conditions in the community. The other team is based in the wider Dublin region. There were two teams funded in CHOs 6 and 7. The funding was made available. It was made available through a specific initiative of Sláintecare called the care redesign fund but we have not seen those teams put in place on the ground in CHOs 6 and 7.