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- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (18 Jan 2023)
Róisín Shortall: 1685. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration is being given to regulation by CORU of athletic therapists; if so, the steps that are being taken to advance this process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2184/23]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Facing Emergency Departments in Public Hospitals: HSE (17 Jan 2023)
Róisín Shortall: I welcome the witnesses to the meeting. I want to make a point that was commenced by other members. Whether the crisis is in regard to trolleys or any aspect of the health service, we know the solution is there in terms of management and accountability, and that is the proposal to restructure the management, bringing management closer to patients within six regional bodies, and to underpin...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Facing Emergency Departments in Public Hospitals: HSE (17 Jan 2023)
Róisín Shortall: Who speaks for the voluntary hospitals?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Facing Emergency Departments in Public Hospitals: HSE (17 Jan 2023)
Róisín Shortall: In regard to all of the hospitals, who speaks for them and, then, who speaks to them? How do policy changes get relayed down to the individual hospitals?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Facing Emergency Departments in Public Hospitals: HSE (17 Jan 2023)
Róisín Shortall: In regard to the trolley crisis, we have gone from a high of 930 people waiting on trolleys on one particular day to a figure of over 500, which is still completely unacceptable, and I know Mr. Mulvany agrees with that. In regard to the reduction from that appalling high figure, what were the three main actions that were taken that resulted in a reduction in those trolley figures?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Facing Emergency Departments in Public Hospitals: HSE (17 Jan 2023)
Róisín Shortall: It is concerning that Mr. Mulvany does not know which ones were likely to have most impact and, therefore, which were the right actions to take, and then, in hindsight, knowing what made the biggest differences. That is concerning because it indicates a stab in the dark.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Facing Emergency Departments in Public Hospitals: HSE (17 Jan 2023)
Róisín Shortall: We know it is a complex system but we should also know what changes that and what are the levers that impact on the numbers. Some of Mr. Mulvany’s colleagues might be in a position to answer that question.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Facing Emergency Departments in Public Hospitals: HSE (17 Jan 2023)
Róisín Shortall: Time is tight. What are the others?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Facing Emergency Departments in Public Hospitals: HSE (17 Jan 2023)
Róisín Shortall: In terms of patient flow and getting more discharges early in the morning, what impacted that most?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Facing Emergency Departments in Public Hospitals: HSE (17 Jan 2023)
Róisín Shortall: What impacted addressing that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Facing Emergency Departments in Public Hospitals: HSE (17 Jan 2023)
Róisín Shortall: What actions that were taken addressed that most effectively?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Facing Emergency Departments in Public Hospitals: HSE (17 Jan 2023)
Róisín Shortall: I note Mr. McCallion has not referred to the extra working hours staff put in in hospitals on a 24-7 basis, or at least seven days a week.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Facing Emergency Departments in Public Hospitals: HSE (17 Jan 2023)
Róisín Shortall: All of that begs the question, given that we were facing into the winter and know there were predictions made by people such as Dr. Fergal Hickey, who said in September that we were facing a hell on earth or Armageddon because of what was coming down the tracks with Covid and the flu, why the actions Mr. McCallion now says were effective over the past two weeks were not taken sooner.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Facing Emergency Departments in Public Hospitals: HSE (17 Jan 2023)
Róisín Shortall: I am talking about the actions that were taken over the past fortnight when the situation was absolutely dire and there was a lot of attention on it. Why were the actions which have been relatively effective not taken sooner?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Facing Emergency Departments in Public Hospitals: HSE (17 Jan 2023)
Róisín Shortall: Arguably, a lot of those actions should have been taken before Christmas. Why was the situation allowed to get a point where there were 930 people on trolleys?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Facing Emergency Departments in Public Hospitals: HSE (17 Jan 2023)
Róisín Shortall: The crisis did not come out of the blue.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Facing Emergency Departments in Public Hospitals: HSE (17 Jan 2023)
Róisín Shortall: That indicates that right across the board the health service is wholly inadequate in terms of capacity. They are issues that should have been dealt with years ago. I will leave it at that. I want to move on to a few other questions. Why is the University Limerick Hospitals Group the only hospital group in the country that does not have a level 3 hospital?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Facing Emergency Departments in Public Hospitals: HSE (17 Jan 2023)
Róisín Shortall: It does not make any sense whatsoever to have a hospital group without a level 3 hospital. ULHG is the only hospital group without one. That needs to be addressed and Ennis Hospital is the obvious hospital to be upgraded. I will leave that question at that point. I want to return to the fundamental problem with how the health service works and the complete disconnection between acute...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Facing Emergency Departments in Public Hospitals: HSE (17 Jan 2023)
Róisín Shortall: Yes, but there are 600 people who should not be in acute hospitals.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Facing Emergency Departments in Public Hospitals: HSE (17 Jan 2023)
Róisín Shortall: There were delays on the part of the HSE in processing fair deal applications.