Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

With regard to hospitals needing to comply with relativity measures, I have instructed the HSE to pause capital investment into any hospital that is refusing to join the productivity drive. We have previously discussed the health performance visualisation platform, HPVP. The vast majority of HSE hospitals are on this platform, which is essential if we are to make sure we get as much patient care as possible. We identify where things are going well and where there are challenges. To date, a small number of hospitals have not been willing to sign up to a data-sharing agreement or felt they could not do so. I do not accept any of the arguments they have put forward. To that end, I have instructed the HSE to ensure that capital investment is linked to data sharing, which we need. I will come back to the Deputy on the question of CHI in my next response.

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