Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 17 January 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Challenges Facing Emergency Departments in Public Hospitals: HSE

Mr. Stephen Mulvany:

Whatever about the physical space piece, our accident and emergency departments have more and more versions of what we call frailty at the front door teams, thanks to the investment in enhanced community care or other investments. They are teams of therapists, nurses and other staff whose role it to try to identify vulnerable, often frail, elderly people arriving to accident and emergency departments as quickly as possible move them either home or into a-----

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