Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 1 February 2017

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare

Health Service Reform: Health Information and Quality Authority

10:10 am

Mr. Phelim Quinn:

I agree that a number of the systems in the UK across the four jurisdictions would have their specific challenges. What we need is a health care strategy that is orientated and focused on need and steered by primary care. The UK has a system of primary care trusts which commission services from the acute sector, for example.