Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 15 June 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Sláintecare Implementation: Discussion

Mr. Paul Reid:

To clarify, 81 of the 96 CHNs are up and running already. All of the 21 community intervention teams are up and running already. They are part of us building towards regions. We are not waiting for 2024 for those to be in place. As Ms Crehan-Roche mentioned in response to another Deputy, we had almost 140,000 cases last year in the context of community access to diagnostics,. We have done almost 100,000 already this year. Those are patients who would most likely have gone to an emergency department but are now not doing so and will probably not end up on a list. That is a practical example of what we are doing now.

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