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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Recruitment, Retention and Manpower Planning Issues: Irish College of General Practitioners (14 Dec 2022)
Martin Conway: Do the witnesses have any preference?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Recruitment, Retention and Manpower Planning Issues: Irish College of General Practitioners (14 Dec 2022)
Martin Conway: With regard to GP visit cards specifically, the departmental and Government target is that there would be free GP access for children aged six and seven by the end of this year and that next April, there will be further changes to the qualification criteria. Given the pressure that GPs are under, do the witnesses think it is wise for the Government to proceed with the changes in April?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Recruitment, Retention and Manpower Planning Issues: Irish College of General Practitioners (14 Dec 2022)
Martin Conway: When the changes made in recent years came into effect, did GPs notice a significant increase in the traffic flow through their practices in the immediate aftermath?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Recruitment, Retention and Manpower Planning Issues: Irish College of General Practitioners (14 Dec 2022)
Martin Conway: I have a question on doctors co-operating. There are some examples, particularly in rural Ireland, where doctors have come together to share back-office and secretarial support. There are still quite a few GPs who have not bought into this concept. Do the witnesses have figures on the numbers that are part of a shared back-office co-operative approach and those who are still sole traders...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Recruitment, Retention and Manpower Planning Issues: Irish College of General Practitioners (14 Dec 2022)
Martin Conway: I understand that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Recruitment, Retention and Manpower Planning Issues: Irish College of General Practitioners (14 Dec 2022)
Martin Conway: There is and it works very well. I am from that area. There are still GP practices in the same area that have not signed up to it, bought into it or whatever phrase we want to use. There could be three practices in a ten-mile radius of each other that are co-operating but there could be another practice within the area that could easily be part of the loop but is not. I am trying to...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Recruitment, Retention and Manpower Planning Issues: Irish College of General Practitioners (14 Dec 2022)
Martin Conway: I totally get that but why is it not attractive for them to do so? Is there anything that can be done that would make it more attractive?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Recruitment, Retention and Manpower Planning Issues: Irish College of General Practitioners (14 Dec 2022)
Martin Conway: I am aware of an example where three GP practices have come together but within that community there is another practice that did not join. It does not make sense to me because there is safety in numbers from a range of perspectives. It seems to be a good model and I would like to see it implemented where possible. Dr. Quinlan pointed out there are areas of the country where it is not...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Recruitment, Retention and Manpower Planning Issues: Irish College of General Practitioners (14 Dec 2022)
Martin Conway: Lisdoonvarna was mentioned earlier. Unfortunately, I was not present at the time. Lisdoonvarna is a unique example because the village and the immediate area are accommodating almost 1,000 Ukrainian refugees who are displaced. This creates a special case for an escalated resolution to the GP situation, which will become a problem in March. Has that been taken into consideration in the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Recruitment, Retention and Manpower Planning Issues: Irish College of General Practitioners (14 Dec 2022)
Martin Conway: Did they suggest significant changes in their recommendations?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Facing Emergency Departments in Public Hospitals: HSE (17 Jan 2023)
Martin Conway: First, I acknowledge the heroic work done by the men and women on the front line in accident and emergency departments throughout the country. One thing that was missing from Mr. Mulvany's opening statement was any kind of an apology to the thousands of people who found themselves on trolleys over the past number of weeks. In his capacity as CEO of the HSE, perhaps he would like to...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Facing Emergency Departments in Public Hospitals: HSE (17 Jan 2023)
Martin Conway: Does Mr. Mulvany feel that there were systems failures in recent weeks in terms of the HSE's response to what was a well-flagged emergency situation that had hit other countries prior to arising here? Does he accept that the HSE's response was lacklustre, to say the least?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Facing Emergency Departments in Public Hospitals: HSE (17 Jan 2023)
Martin Conway: Why did Mr. Mulvany wait until 22 December to activate the emergency response?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Facing Emergency Departments in Public Hospitals: HSE (17 Jan 2023)
Martin Conway: Does Mr. Mulvany accept that the winter plan has been an unmitigated disaster, that none of the targets it contains were met and that the model of intervention has to be reviewed?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Facing Emergency Departments in Public Hospitals: HSE (17 Jan 2023)
Martin Conway: I want to drill down for a minute. Mr. Mulvany was here before the committee on 16 November. I engaged with him on the winter plan. I think Ms Mary Day said then, in response to my questioning, that she was engaging with the private hospitals and that discussions were ongoing on requisitioning beds from private hospitals. Mr. Mulvany's opening statement today tells us that that engagement...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Facing Emergency Departments in Public Hospitals: HSE (17 Jan 2023)
Martin Conway: There was a critical incident protocol in the University Hospital Limerick, UHL. I think it was announced on 3 January. That suggests to me that UHL was the worst of all the hospitals in the country in the trolley crisis. Can Mr. Mulvany confirm what I was told at a briefing last week that of the 180 private beds used throughout the State, only five were requisitioned by the UL Hospitals...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Facing Emergency Departments in Public Hospitals: HSE (17 Jan 2023)
Martin Conway: Can Mr. Mulvany confirm that only five private beds were used -----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Facing Emergency Departments in Public Hospitals: HSE (17 Jan 2023)
Martin Conway: ----- by UL Hospitals Group?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Facing Emergency Departments in Public Hospitals: HSE (17 Jan 2023)
Martin Conway: Is that not the problem? Is the lack of a private hospital and the lack of an elective hospital in Limerick the nub of the problem? Is it not one of the key capacity problems in Limerick?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Facing Emergency Departments in Public Hospitals: HSE (17 Jan 2023)
Martin Conway: To be honest, what this is about is the HSE planning and preparing as best it can to deal with an emergency. It is scandalous that only five private beds were requisitioned by the UL Hospitals Group given that it is the worst performing hospital in the country. Would Mr. Mulvany not agree with that?