Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 17 May 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Access to Community Neurological Rehabilitation Teams: Discussion

Photo of David CullinaneDavid Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Let me take this down to a local level because there happens to be one in the CHO area that Waterford is in. I know we have two consultants who specialise in neurology in Waterford but we do not have a clinical nursing specialist, or that is my understanding. If we do not have that multidisciplinary service, I imagine that the earlier point arises in terms of the revolving door and patients being discharged but having no primary or community care access. Is that what is happening in Waterford, for example? Is that a good example of the lack of integration between the acute side, the primary side and the community side?

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