Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 19 October 2016
Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare
The Cancer Strategy as a Case Study of Health Service Reform: Professor Tom Keane
9:00 am
Louise O'Reilly (Dublin Fingal, Sinn Fein)
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On that note, there was an overarching agreement that was very helpful but there was also a plan, which was perhaps key to - I will use an awful phrase - the buy-in from health care professionals. They could see where it was going, and it was not seen as change simply for the sake of it. There was an identifiable plan and significant political support for it. That goes back to what we have been discussing at the committee, which is the big bang versus the small and incremental changes. This was more in the line of a big bang but there was a very defined plan for health care professionals to buy into.