Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 12 June 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

National Children's Hospital: Discussion

Ms Eilísh Hardiman:

As I said, if there is a policy change, we are willing to implement it because we can use that for public patients. How we operate this is that clinicians who want to avail of it provide an operational fee that covers the running costs and the fees. We have not worked those out yet but that is the model that we are proposing.

That is the model we are proposing. As part of our merger and integration, we are looking at the three clinics at the moment and how we move forward to a model whereby if clinicians want to avail of this facility, they will pay a fee for services and a simple operational method of doing it. That is our plan to implement that.