Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 6 April 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Oversight of Sláintecare: Discussion (Resumed)

Ms Anne O'Connor:

In terms of the public health nursing and certainly enhanced community care, the structure is one of the challenges we have had. There would be assistant director at a network level who would work as a key team lead for nursing rather than having many individuals. Particularly, we have the integrated care programmes and they would actually co-ordinate activities. That, in effect, would be more attractive for people too - having a structure in each network. It is about developing that structure and having a network where nurses can work within teams with healthcare assistants and other professionals, and the assistant directors will be key to that.

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