Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 3 July 2024
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
Update on Neurorehabilitation Healthcare, Primary Care Centre Programme and CAMHS: HSE
9:30 am
Mr. Tony Canavan:
It is best understood as the team we described earlier. There are 12 staff on each of the two teams funded for this year. The teams include a combination of speech and language therapists, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, consultants and nursing and clerical support. They are based in the community as opposed to in a hospital. In some cases, they may be based across a couple of locations to try to make sure there is good geographical spread. They will be linked with the beds we referred to earlier so that the pathway for referral for the patient is seamless if inpatient care is required. We are in recruitment for two of those right now and establishing those would be an important step.
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