Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 17 April 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion

Ms Imelda O'Donovan:

We have been talking about identifying one of the clinics and we have devised a proposal for it. When we are talking about the one-stop shop and a centre of excellence, and that is the goal for all the clinics, our proposal is to start with one rather than trying to do the whole lot together. We have identified one of the clinics where we think this could work if the clinicians were willing to work with us. It would have to have considerable patient involvement and working with LCAI as well. That is key to this. We need to look at where we are now. What do we know? What are the services being provided? Where do we want to go to? What are the gaps? We need to conduct that type of review in one of the clinics and then take it from there to identify the steps we need to take to bridge the gap between where we are and where we want to be.

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