Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 13 December 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Cardiovascular Health, Stroke and Heart Attack: Discussion

Dr. Lisa Hynes:

It is a minimal cost. An accredited machine can be around the €30 mark. We started in Castlebar library and had four or five monitors in there initially. The feedback after the first six months was such that they were loaned out 72 times. That was interesting. We had no idea what the interest or uptake would be. We have a lot more to learn on why people are engaging, what they are doing with it and how best to feed into the whole system in terms of what people then do with that information. How do we support people to act on it? That kind of thing is empowering for people and could be very low cost.

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