Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 24 May 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
HSE National Service Plan 2023: Discussion
Mr. Bernard Gloster:
I suspect they are the same as every other multidisciplinary team construct we are now creating. The modern day approach to both health and social care services is to have a multidisciplinary team in nearly all parts of our services - primary care, chronic disease and so on. When there are different therapists and different disciplines in one team, being led by one person of one discipline, there is an issue about how to appropriately clinically supervise the individual discipline within its own right. For example, people would say a physiotherapist could manage a team but they could not clinically supervise a nurse. That is where the governance question arises. We face it across a number of areas. I think we have achieved a level of success with it and we are getting better at it.
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