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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee
Hospital Services: Discussion (4 Jul 2018) Michael Harty: I thank Deputy O'Connell. We have had contributions from four members and there are many questions. If Deputy Kelly has one quick question, I will not make him wait for all the answers.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee
Hospital Services: Discussion (4 Jul 2018) Michael Harty: No, the Deputy says one. He can pick one question.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee
Hospital Services: Discussion (4 Jul 2018) Michael Harty: Perhaps we can go to the beginning and answer some of my questions first. One was specifically to Mr. Gloster.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee
Hospital Services: Discussion (4 Jul 2018) Michael Harty: My specific question on the validation of lists regarded the obvious decrease in the waiting list number as a result.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee
Hospital Services: Discussion (4 Jul 2018) Michael Harty: What element of that decrease results from the identification of persons who no longer require treatment as opposed to having been treated?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee
Hospital Services: Discussion (4 Jul 2018) Michael Harty: The population is projected to increase by 1 million. Ireland currently requires 2,600 beds per 1 million population. Thus, if our population increases by 1 million, we will need 2,600 beds just to stand still.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee
Hospital Services: Discussion (4 Jul 2018) Michael Harty: There was a question on the 8 a.m. numbers as opposed to the trolley watch numbers.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee
Hospital Services: Discussion (4 Jul 2018) Michael Harty: The HSE does not use the trolley watch figures.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee
Hospital Services: Discussion (4 Jul 2018) Michael Harty: Do the two sets of data mirror each other?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee
Hospital Services: Discussion (4 Jul 2018) Michael Harty: With regard to the 477,000 no shows, how many of those are first visits and how many are repeat or roll-over visits where they come back in six months?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee
Hospital Services: Discussion (4 Jul 2018) Michael Harty: Can we get a figure for it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee
Hospital Services: Discussion (4 Jul 2018) Michael Harty: Thank you. Before I call Senators Kieran O'Donnell and Conway-Walsh, Deputy O'Reilly has a short question.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee
Hospital Services: Discussion (4 Jul 2018) Michael Harty: I call Senator Kieran O'Donnell.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee
Hospital Services: Discussion (4 Jul 2018) Michael Harty: The point she was making was that nurses felt they were working in an unsafe environment, and that they were under too much pressure given the number of patients they had to look after, the ratio of nurses to patients and the acute illness of the patients. They felt that they were exposed and vulnerable in situations like that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee
Hospital Services: Discussion (4 Jul 2018) Michael Harty: Ms Cowan made reference to urgent care units and mentioned that a delegation had gone to England to examine them. Perhaps she can expand on the benefit of urgent care units and what they are all about. The second issue concerns outpatient and inpatient waiting lists. The theatre in Ennis is under-utilised, perhaps to 50% of its capacity. There is huge difficulty with outpatient...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee
Hospital Services: Discussion (4 Jul 2018) Michael Harty: Would the urgent care centres sit between casualty and the out-of-hours service, in a sense?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee
Hospital Services: Discussion (4 Jul 2018) Michael Harty: On questions of recruitment and retention, part of the answer is often that we are increasing training places. The issue about increasing training places is that we will lose our graduates if the hospital system is not a magnet system that attracts people to come and work in it, because they will choose to go abroad rather than work in the dysfunctional system that we have. While we need to...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee
Hospital Services: Discussion (4 Jul 2018) Michael Harty: Finally, Ms Cowan was going to speak about Ennis Hospital.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee
Hospital Services: Discussion (4 Jul 2018) Michael Harty: I thank the witnesses on behalf of the committee. This is the first group of witnesses who have emptied the committee room. I do not know whether that is positive or negative. I thank Ms Colette Cowan, Mr. Liam Woods and Mr. Bernard Gloster, speaking on behalf of the HSE, for their expert opinions. I also thank Ms Susan Scally, Mr. Paul Bolger and Ms Linda O'Rourke, who contributed on...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Reports (3 Jul 2018)
Michael Harty: 314. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the HSE report, Alleged HSE Maladministration and Corporate Fraud, which was commissioned in March 2016 by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28952/18]