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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)
Gino Kenny: Will these hubs be a permanent feature or will they be a temporary measure until there is more capacity?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)
Gino Kenny: My next question is on how we can adapt modern technology to healthcare. The witnesses spoke about a health app due out next year. How will it work? Most of us have a smartphone at this stage. Will the witnesses run us through how the app could help us to interact with the health system?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)
Gino Kenny: That is handy.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)
Gino Kenny: What about X-rays and MRI scans?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)
Gino Kenny: It sounds brilliant.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)
Gino Kenny: Okay, and the app will be out some time next year.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)
Gino Kenny: Will people be able to download it from one of the app stores?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)
Gino Kenny: That sounds good. Telemedicine is a relatively new concept in Ireland. Other jurisdictions use it. The Minister mentioned it last week in relation to virtual wards. He said it could save 8,000 beds per year and reduce people's reliance on attending hospital. It is a good concept but will the witnesses run us through what a virtual ward is and how it could prevent people going into an...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)
Gino Kenny: Obviously the people taking part in the programme would be monitored on a constant basis.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)
Gino Kenny: That is all being monitored in real time.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)
Gino Kenny: So Johnny, Mary and Joseph are being looked at on a constant basis.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)
Gino Kenny: I suppose it would be up to the patient to have a camera. That would be on their own laptop.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)
Gino Kenny: What would those criteria be?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)
Gino Kenny: Where would the mothership be? Who would have oversight of this hub?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)
Gino Kenny: In relation to the staff, nurses and doctors, will their sole goal relate to their patients in this virtual ward? Could they be called to a different location?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)
Gino Kenny: Okay, interesting.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)
Gino Kenny: If a person runs into difficulties or an emergency, the clinical team obviously makes a call to the ambulance.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)
Gino Kenny: Grand. Thanks.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)
Gino Kenny: Yes. It would be very helpful.
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (7 Dec 2023)
Gino Kenny: 165. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport how much funding is being provided in 2024 for rail services to provide extra trains on busy routes. [54254/23]