Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 28 September 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
Sláintecare Implementation: Discussion (Resumed)
Mr. Damien McCallion:
Yes, private providers who can do that, not necessarily hospitals but community diagnostic-type providers alongside ourselves. Indeed, there are some not-for-profit entities that work on this as well. The model is very clear. We want to take people who require those sorts of cardiac investigations through the chronic disease management hubs, rather than going into busy hospitals. In particular, we might imagine an older person parking in the car park and having to go through an acute hospital to get that test, as someone described to me once.
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