Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 17 May 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
Access to Community Neurological Rehabilitation Teams: Discussion
Ms Magdalen Rogers:
It also relates to the broader resourcing of the services because people need to be seen if the treatments they need are to be identified. We are still seeing really long waiting lists for neurology services. More than 23,000 people are still on neurology those lists. People are waiting longer between appointments and struggling to gain access to a specialist nurse. Even getting to the point of diagnosis and seeing a health professional often enough to be in a position to be prescribed the medication the Deputy mentioned is an issue. It is a symptom of the under-resourcing of neurology services as a whole.
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