Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 24 May 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

HSE National Service Plan 2023: Discussion

Dr. Colm Henry:

With a new service like this, while I do not like to use the word "pilot" because it is not exactly the right term, it starts with a couple of sites so that we can learn what is right and what is not. That was quite instructive in this particular case because the view of our national lead in rehabilitation, Dr. Carroll, is that the teams for the first two sites selected were perhaps too small and did not have a consultant in place. As such, they did not have the scope and capability to manage all the cases they should see. It is not unusual for us. We would select not necessarily based on the area of greatest need but to try out a team to see how it works and then to tweak the design as we roll it out nationally, which is exactly what we are doing here.

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