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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Catheterisation Laboratory Clinical Review: Discussion (8 Feb 2017)
Michael Harty: For those who receive thrombolysis and are referred to a catheterisation laboratory as opposed to those who arrive within 90 minutes and have a stent inserted, are there survival figures?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Catheterisation Laboratory Clinical Review: Discussion (8 Feb 2017)
Michael Harty: Please allow Dr. Herity to respond.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Catheterisation Laboratory Clinical Review: Discussion (8 Feb 2017)
Michael Harty: I will ask a question.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Catheterisation Laboratory Clinical Review: Discussion (8 Feb 2017)
Michael Harty: I am sorry, but I will ask one question. Does Dr. Herity have any doubt in his mind about the accuracy of the catchment population that he devised and extrapolated from other figures?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Catheterisation Laboratory Clinical Review: Discussion (8 Feb 2017)
Michael Harty: Please allow Dr. Herity to continue.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Catheterisation Laboratory Clinical Review: Discussion (8 Feb 2017)
Michael Harty: No, we must-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Catheterisation Laboratory Clinical Review: Discussion (8 Feb 2017)
Michael Harty: I will allow the final remark to be made by Deputy Mary Butler.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Catheterisation Laboratory Clinical Review: Discussion (8 Feb 2017)
Michael Harty: We have to-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Catheterisation Laboratory Clinical Review: Discussion (8 Feb 2017)
Michael Harty: Please, Deputy.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Catheterisation Laboratory Clinical Review: Discussion (8 Feb 2017)
Michael Harty: On behalf of the committee, I thank Dr. Herity for attending at short notice and engaging in an open and informative manner.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Catheterisation Laboratory Clinical Review: Discussion (8 Feb 2017)
Michael Harty: We will now meet representatives from hospitals in the south east in regard to the Herity clinical review of provision of a second catheterisation laboratory at University Hospital Waterford. On behalf of the committee, I welcome Dr. Patrick Owens and Dr. Mark Doyle from University Hospital Waterford, Dr. Aidan Buckley from Wexford General Hospital and Dr. Niall Colwell from South Tipperary...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Catheterisation Laboratory Clinical Review: Discussion (8 Feb 2017)
Michael Harty: I thank Dr. Owens. I will now open the meeting to the floor. We will take groups of three and the first group is Deputies David Cullinane, Mary Butler and Senator Coffey.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Catheterisation Laboratory Clinical Review: Discussion (8 Feb 2017)
Michael Harty: Before I bring in Deputes Halligan, Kelleher and O'Connell, I have a question for the witnesses. I understand that Waterford is the only catheterisation lab in the country that does not provide 24-7 cover. Is that correct?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Catheterisation Laboratory Clinical Review: Discussion (8 Feb 2017)
Michael Harty: Is it Dr. Owen's belief that it needs to be a 24-7 unit? What would be required for the unit to operate on that basis? What would be the infrastructural requirements?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Catheterisation Laboratory Clinical Review: Discussion (8 Feb 2017)
Michael Harty: Would that be the first stepping stone, to go from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., five days a week to 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., seven days a week?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Catheterisation Laboratory Clinical Review: Discussion (8 Feb 2017)
Michael Harty: Does Dr. Owens believe the volume is there to justify that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Catheterisation Laboratory Clinical Review: Discussion (8 Feb 2017)
Michael Harty: We will have to discuss that in private session.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Catheterisation Laboratory Clinical Review: Discussion (8 Feb 2017)
Michael Harty: They can express a recommendation. I have one or two questions. Is primary percutaneous coronary intervention, PCI, still being provided at University Hospital Waterford?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Catheterisation Laboratory Clinical Review: Discussion (8 Feb 2017)
Michael Harty: Has the position remain unchanged or have changes been introduced as a result of the Herity report?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Catheterisation Laboratory Clinical Review: Discussion (8 Feb 2017)
Michael Harty: Have consultants working in centres providing a 24-7 service expressed a view on the Herity report? Are the witnesses at one with their colleagues on this issue or is there a divergence of views across cardiology?