Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 1 March 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Sláintecare Implementation: Centre for Health Policy and Management, Trinity College Dublin

Dr. Sara Burke:

I think it was. There was stuff around having them in deprived and places where it is hard to get them, including the islands and rural areas. That is a model used internationally, because that is something the committee looked at then too. There is no reason not to do that as well, but we really need the nurses and allied health professionals. In a way, we now need to provide everybody with free access to them and 24-hour triage up front before doing the free GP care because we just do not have the capacity to deliver free GP care at the moment.

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