Professor Cathal O'Donnell:

It has been a very successful piece of work. It is a very successful collaboration with our colleagues in CUH. Various measures have been put in place by both our organisations. We are still working through them and tweaking and fine-tuning them. I spent most of the day there on Monday working through them again. Regarding some of the specific things Mr. Morton mentioned earlier, the ambulance service personnel we are putting at the back doors of hospitals around the country, who are called hospital ambulance liaison personnel, are individuals at supervisory grade who work very closely with an identified equivalent nurse manager to spot the issues and the often small things that can slow things down.

We are getting much better at sharing data and together identifying where are the choke points. We are working through that and getting our different data systems to talk to each other better. That has been very successful.