Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 8 May 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Services for those Living with a Neurological Condition: Discussion

Ms Magdalen Rogers:

The neurological lines are particularly supportive of the neurorehabilitation demonstrator project, as I outlined in my statement, because we see it as joining the various parts in order that the acute service providers, the acute hospitals and the existing rehabilitation units, all the way through to primary care and voluntary service providers, are all involved in one network. It is a practical project that is Sláintecare on the ground. It is fulfilling its ethos, something for which we were looking. It is happening, which is why we are calling for funding for the project. It fulfils that remit and is the magic formula for integration across hospitals and the community for people who are living long term with the condition.