Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 10 February 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement

Engagement with Co-operation and Working Together

Mr. Damien McCallion:

I will add to that by mentioning the work on the indemnity, for example. Those things are very important to enable people to move, whether in a student capacity or otherwise, where people can work across, especially in areas of specialisation. It is important for patients that you look at a wider population. Mr. Forbes can speak to some of the initiatives that are not CAWT initiatives but that CAWT would have facilitated, such as the percutaneous coronary intervention, PCI, where people who have cardiac arrest and so on in Donegal can now go in to Altnagelvin Area Hospital and get immediate treatment that would not have been available heretofore. The lives of several hundred people have been saved as a result of that initiative. Those things take a long time to give effect to the regulatory, legal operational and other considerations.

I ask Mr. Forbes to respond on the health and well-being development and the evaluation.