Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 27 September 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
Update on Sláintecare Reforms
Mr. Bernard Gloster:
We share the Deputy's abhorrence at the experience a lot of our staff have to deal with. The reality is that we have to triage everyone who presents in our emergency departments. As the Deputy will know, regardless of the presentation of different challenges and maybe wider societal problems that have nothing to do with the health service, as he pointed out, in respect of the first person that we would not triage, regardless of their conduct in an emergency department, who would go out the door and suffer a subdural haematoma, I would be back in here with his colleagues facing an inquiry into why my hospital did not respond.
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