Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 5 October 2023
Public Accounts Committee
Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023
9:30 am
Mr. Bernard Gloster:
The other point in the strategy to double the workforce over the next seven years is that you double the fleet with it. To be fair, the ambulance service would articulate this very well. There was a time when the ambulance service was simply seen as a transport service. You went out, you picked up a person and you brought them to hospital. They are now caring for people at home with Pathfinder. They are the emergency department in the home. They do an amazing amount of clinical and allied health professional-type work. All of that is built into that projection. It is not that there is a fleet of ambulances lying idle waiting for staff.
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