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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Impact of Covid-19 on Neurological Services, Care and Capacity: Neurological Alliance of Ireland (30 Mar 2022)

Ms Magdalen Rogers: Exactly, Deputy. What we do not want to see is a further disenfrachisement of people with neurological conditions where only those who can pay can access specialist rehabilitation in the south. I am cognisant of the workload and number of issues that come before this committee but, once again, I ask the committee to do a special hearing on neuro-rehabilitation services...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Impact of Covid-19 on Neurological Services, Care and Capacity: Neurological Alliance of Ireland (30 Mar 2022)

Ms Magdalen Rogers: I agree with the Deputy that everything needs to be on the table and I will outline the concerns of the Neurological Alliance of Ireland. There is a strategy and how it gets implemented needs to be decided plus the implementation process needs to be effective. The strategy group needs to meet on a regular basis - we cannot have the situation again where it did not meet...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Impact of Covid-19 on Neurological Services, Care and Capacity: Neurological Alliance of Ireland (30 Mar 2022)

Ms Magdalen Rogers: Deputy Shortall raised the same issue earlier. The ultimate responsibility lies with the HSE, the Department, and directly with the Minister for Health who is responsible for delivering the strategy.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Impact of Covid-19 on Neurological Services, Care and Capacity: Neurological Alliance of Ireland (30 Mar 2022)

Ms Magdalen Rogers: If I could come in there, our colleagues in the Neurological Alliance in the UK are much better resourced in this regard. They are not as well-resourced as some areas in Europe but they are certainly better resourced than Ireland in terms of neurology and neuro-rehabilitation services. The Neurological Alliance issued a report highlighting Covid as the perfect storm for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Impact of Covid-19 on Neurological Services, Care and Capacity: Neurological Alliance of Ireland (30 Mar 2022)

Ms Magdalen Rogers: There is a very well-functioning team in the mid-west neuro-rehabilitation team. That has been functioning for over ten or 15 years now. As Professor Hardiman said, that is a critical part of the overall success of neurological care in the mid-west. It is critical to the neurology services and community services for people with neurological conditions. That is one...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Impact of Covid-19 on Neurological Services, Care and Capacity: Neurological Alliance of Ireland (30 Mar 2022)

Ms Magdalen Rogers: I should say to the Chairman that we do not call for a special hearing by the committee on neuro-rehabilitation services lightly. To us, the failure of implementation of the strategy is so systemic at this stage we feel we need the time to explore that with members in more detail. It is impacting on all sorts of other initiatives within the health services. For...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Impact of Covid-19 on Neurological Services, Care and Capacity: Neurological Alliance of Ireland (30 Mar 2022)

Ms Magdalen Rogers: We have had the appointment of migraine nurses.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Impact of Covid-19 on Neurological Services, Care and Capacity: Neurological Alliance of Ireland (30 Mar 2022)

Ms Magdalen Rogers: There is a mechanism for that through the ongoing dialogue fora with the voluntary sector on foot of the independent review group on the role of voluntary providers in health and social care services. There is a forum and the committee could be mindful and watchful of that space so there is a full implementation of the recommendations of the report arising from that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Impact of Covid-19 on Neurological Services, Care and Capacity: Neurological Alliance of Ireland (30 Mar 2022)

Ms Magdalen Rogers: That is a small-scale piece. We are a very small organisation and this is a piece of work we are undertaking. It is more of a qualitative piece of work. We want to talk to patients and we want to talk to clinicians on the front line. We can all read waiting lists and neurology waiting lists, which we can access very easily, but we want to get a sense of whether there...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Impact of Covid-19 on Neurological Services, Care and Capacity: Neurological Alliance of Ireland (30 Mar 2022)

Ms Magdalen Rogers: I thank the committee for giving us so much time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Impact of Covid-19 on Neurological Services, Care and Capacity: Neurological Alliance of Ireland (30 Mar 2022)

Ms Magdalen Rogers: As I stated in response to Deputy Cullinane, it is estimated that we have half the specialist rehabilitation beds that are needed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Impact of Covid-19 on Neurological Services, Care and Capacity: Neurological Alliance of Ireland (30 Mar 2022)

Ms Magdalen Rogers: With regard to the neuro-rehabilitation strategy, we have not even got there yet. We have not even seen an attempt to recruit those multidisciplinary teams. As I explained earlier, there was a commitment in that three-year neuro-rehabilitation framework to have one community neuro-rehabilitation team in each CHO. That has not been progressed. As I said, the funding was...