Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 27 June 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

New Standard Operating Procedure for Assessment of Need under the Disability Act 2005: Discussion

9:00 am

Dr. Cathal Morgan:

That is 1,718 overdue. When one drills into that figure, the high numbers are specific to North Lee and South Lee in Cork. Kerry is more or less doing well. The figure is geographically specific. It is the major urban centres. The factors relate to the concerns I spoke about earlier. They need more therapy staff, but they also need to have a more structured way of working the progression disability services to get the teams in place. We can compare it to the mid-west and Limerick where this is working efficiently. Those areas have reconfigured and their numbers are quite different. There will be variances between the two systems and they will not be like for like, but CHO 4 stands out by a mile in comparison to the rest of the State.