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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)
Colm Burke: I know but the problem is that if we do not have the staff to man them we will be in difficulty. There is another training issue, which is the need for Departments to co-ordinate. I understand that UCC is prepared to make available additional training places but the trainees also need to have access to clinical places in hospitals for the training process. There is a need for co-ordination...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)
Colm Burke: Second, I want to raise the issue of discharge from hospitals. While I know everything is being done to try to expedite this, even as we sit here, I understand that anything up to 500 people are in hospital who should not be there but should be discharged. I have tabled a parliamentary question regarding someone who has been in St. Vincent's University Hospital in Dublin for two and a half...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)
Colm Burke: Two and a half years. I still have not received a reply to-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)
Colm Burke: My understanding is that a place was identified two years ago for the patient in St. Vincent's but there seems to be a stand-off as regards who is taking responsibility. Two and a half years later, a bed is being occupied at high cost to the State because a place is not available in a hospital.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)
Colm Burke: I will move on to the issue of elective hospitals. The Secretary General referred to this. We have identified a site in Cork and appointed a design team. When is it believed we can go forward to making a planning application? Is there a timeframe? I fully understand the Department does not have overall control of the design team but timelines are being set out. What timeline are we...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)
Colm Burke: Does Mr. Watt think we will have a planning application ready to go before the end of this year?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)
Colm Burke: My next question is on three facilities which the HSE has in Cork. Mallow General Hospital is to have 48 beds for run-of-the-mill patient care and 40 rooms have been built. I have received a letter from the chief executive of the South/South West Hospital Group this week. There seems to be no plan for what the 40 rooms will be used for. The other two facilities in Cork are Heather House,...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)
Colm Burke: We will have to downscale the number of beds in the old Mallow hospital, however, and transfer them to the new unit.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)
Colm Burke: No one is able to tell me what we will do with the 40 rooms. They are there. We have a problem and great pressure in getting people into and out of hospital. What is the plan? The letter I received from the South/South West Hospital Group does not give me clarification on whether there is a plan.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)
Colm Burke: Yes, I am aware of that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)
Colm Burke: With regard to the other 40 rooms that have been built, no one has given me-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)
Colm Burke: Surely we have a building built. There is great demand for services. We have a four-storey building and the second and third stories have 48 beds. No one is telling me what we will do with the ground floor and the first floor.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)
Colm Burke: What is the time plan? The building is there. CUH is under great pressure. There is an increase in population in Cork, Kerry and all of the Munster region. We need the capacity.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)
Colm Burke: The other problem is availability of rehabilitation beds. There is huge demand. All rehabilitation facilities are based in Dublin. There is no rehabilitation facility, in real terms, in County Cork. Why can that not be considered as regards rehabilitation facilities?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)
Colm Burke: We now have the building, my view is about its effective use.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)
Colm Burke: My concern is that there is huge pressure on the services in County Cork. I ask that someone come back to me as soon as possible, rather than me getting a letter which does not say "yes" or "no" that this will or will not be the same way this time next year. That is what I am concerned about.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)
Colm Burke: There are pressures-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)
Colm Burke: I will come back to the issue of nursing homes. At a previous meeting, I raised the fact that the average cost of a public nursing home in the County Laois area is more than €2,550 per bed per week. A private nursing home only costs €1,000. The cost of a public nursing is €1,900. Has there been any examination of why the average cost of the three types of nursing home...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)
Colm Burke: Absolutely, it is the way forward.