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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Services for those Living with a Neurological Condition: Discussion (8 May 2019)
Kate O'Connell: Yes. That comes up. It really matters to people whose condition is rapidly deteriorating.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Services for those Living with a Neurological Condition: Discussion (8 May 2019)
Kate O'Connell: They never get to spend their home care packages as sometimes they are gone before they are able to do so.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Services for those Living with a Neurological Condition: Discussion (8 May 2019)
Kate O'Connell: It really is beyond me how the neurologist, who will have to diagnose a condition, and the GP cannot tick the box on this.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Oral Health Policy: Discussion (15 May 2019)
Kate O'Connell: I thank our guests for appearing before the committee. Back in my days spent working in Dublin City Council, I worked with a few of them in the context of fluoride being in the water supply. For the benefit of the public and the committee, will they speak briefly on the role of fluoride in the water supply and the risk that removing it would pose, with specific reference to oral health...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Oral Health Policy: Discussion (15 May 2019)
Kate O'Connell: If dental technicians who do not have the clinical training to look into somebody's mouth take it upon themselves to go outside their remit and start examining someone's mouth, essentially it is a form of assault.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Oral Health Policy: Discussion (15 May 2019)
Kate O'Connell: With regard to how the organisation has been affected by FEMPI, people used to get two examinations a year through PRSI. This was cut and now has been restored. Is this correct?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Oral Health Policy: Discussion (15 May 2019)
Kate O'Connell: Did it go to zero?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Oral Health Policy: Discussion (15 May 2019)
Kate O'Connell: FEMPI is separate.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Oral Health Policy: Discussion (15 May 2019)
Kate O'Connell: Prior to the FEMPI changes to these open-ended schemes, if Mr. Hourihan, as a treating dentist, saw a person with a medical card, he knew he could plan a pathway of treatment without getting approval from whoever pays him. Now, he must get approval for a treatment plan before he can proceed. Is it true to say that perhaps this is hindering the progression of a treatment pathway?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Oral Health Policy: Discussion (15 May 2019)
Kate O'Connell: Even in terms of the drugs that are allowed, the scheme is very limited.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Oral Health Policy: Discussion (15 May 2019)
Kate O'Connell: As a pharmacist, I find it ridiculously limited. It is not as if a dentist will prescribe a medication for rheumatoid arthritis.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Oral Health Policy: Discussion (15 May 2019)
Kate O'Connell: Dentists will prescribe drugs that are needed. The scheme is very restrictive. The costs of some components of the treatment pathway are paid for and the dentist may decide that the patient also needs other treatments. Let us say a dentist wants to give a child or an adult with a medical card a certain type of treatment. How long does it take to obtain approval? Is approval given in weeks?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Oral Health Policy: Discussion (15 May 2019)
Kate O'Connell: Who decides? Is it a dentist or someone else?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Oral Health Policy: Discussion (15 May 2019)
Kate O'Connell: Does anyone have figures on this? Perhaps the committee could get them. Has there been a saving? Are there comparative figures?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Oral Health Policy: Discussion (15 May 2019)
Kate O'Connell: Has that increase occurred since the cuts were introduced?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Oral Health Policy: Discussion (15 May 2019)
Kate O'Connell: Does an acute hospital admission in dentistry mean someone turning up with astronomical pain, probably heading towards sepsis?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Oral Health Policy: Discussion (15 May 2019)
Kate O'Connell: Sepsis, yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Oral Health Policy: Discussion (15 May 2019)
Kate O'Connell: Intravenous antibiotics, the lot.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Oral Health Policy: Discussion (15 May 2019)
Kate O'Connell: Is there a gap between the extraction and removal of cancer by Professor Stassen and reconstruction?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Oral Health Policy: Discussion (15 May 2019)
Kate O'Connell: The argument being made is that there should be a seamless transition from treatment to reconstruction to allow patients to get on with their lives.