Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 28 November 2018
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
Lyme Disease: Discussion
9:00 am
Dr. Ronan Glynn:
No, that comes first. As deputy chief medical officer, I am particularly interested in the reviews of the best available evidence and my job is to ensure the best evidence is used across the country for all conditions. I am particularly interested in that. It is on that published evidence that international statistical classification of diseases and related health problems, ICD, codes are formed so that we can then classify diseases. A patient is treated in a clinic based on best available clinical evidence produced by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence and international societies around the world. Ireland has its own community that has looked at the evidence and developed a consensus document based on what it believes to be the best approach.