Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 28 September 2016
Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare
Management of Chronic Care Illness: Discussion
9:00 am
Joan Collins (Dublin South Central, Independent)
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Do we have to be part of that? Should we be recommending what the GPs are explaining to us here?
Having listened to the witnesses who have contributed to date, I am convinced that care in the community should be the focus. The question is how we do that. We talked to people about the Carlow-Kilkenny model last week. Why are other GPs not organising themselves to do that with their own hospitals locally? If that is not done, we need to try to deal with that because that connection needs to be there.