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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)

Seán Crowe: Are the former contracts open-ended or do they run out at any particular time?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)

Seán Crowe: There are some concerns around the surgical hubs idea. I am aware of the reuse model in Tallaght. One of the reasons it is successful relates to an issue we touched on previously. Normally, when there is a challenge with emergency department beds, the first beds to get it, so to speak, are the day care beds. Part of the success story of the Tallaght model was where it remained open in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)

Seán Crowe: There is also the fact it is an innovative approach that has come from within the system, similar to Pathfinder, which also has being rolled out, and the very positive elements in that regard are quite obvious. We were speaking earlier about the tendering process and the Minister was talking about it being a major obstacle to delivering capital projects. He said we need these in a timely...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)

Seán Crowe: Will any new cost-effective control processes be introduced or have they come on stream, having learned from previous processes?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)

Seán Crowe: For people listening in, but for people also within the political system, we want a system where we are learning from past mistakes and improving all of the time. We would like to think we will be doing things better and with a different approach to all of the big projects. On the cyber resilience, the question that jumps out, so to speak, is whether there are still machines connected to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)

Seán Crowe: At the time, radiotherapy and the machines there were one area in particular. Has that issue been resolved regarding the equipment that was being used there?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)

Seán Crowe: The other area mentioned by the witnesses was critical care beds, and that there would be 331 by the end of the year. I know I have raised this before but a report from 2009 that is on the HSE website, Towards Excellence in Critical Care, talked about increasing from 289 beds to 579 beds in the 2010 to the 2020 period. There has been an increase in 42 beds in that ten-year period. In view...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)

Seán Crowe: Do you have a ballpark figure?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)

Seán Crowe: I want to go back to the issue of the individual health identifier. In the context of innovation, a new system was devised during Covid. We were able to put an in-house system in place. There have been a number of questions from Members on the health identifier project already but I am interested in the role of the GP. I have come across some challenges recently. One GP surgery had to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)

Seán Crowe: I am conscious that some GP surgeries would be better than others and in that context, there is a gap in the system. Is there any way of resolving that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)

Seán Crowe: I will go back to Members now. Deputy Burke is first.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)

Seán Crowe: The Deputy is out of time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)

Seán Crowe: I am going to move on to Deputy Cullinane.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)

Seán Crowe: I have given the Deputy plenty of leeway.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)

Seán Crowe: The next speaker is Deputy Durkan.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)

Seán Crowe: I touched earlier on the paper files being moved to a computerised system, and people's medical history being uploaded. Do we have a sense of how far advanced that is? I get it is probably an ongoing process. How many people are still outstanding, and when do the witnesses think it will be completed?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)

Seán Crowe: For people who are probably listening at home, what will happen to the old paper medical files? Are they going to be stored or digitised, or what will happen?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)

Seán Crowe: I am conscious we are coming to an end. I thank the representatives from the Department of Health and the HSE for their continued engagement with the committee on the important matter of the implementation of Sláintecare. I again take the opportunity to thank them for their continuing engagement with the committee throughout the year. I look forward to further co-operation in the new...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2023)

Seán Crowe: This meeting has been convened to consider the 2023 Supplementary Estimate for Vote 38 – Department of Health. Apologies have been received from Deputy Burke at the last minute. I welcome the Minister, Deputy Donnelly; the Minister of State, Deputy Butler; and their officials to the meeting to consider the Supplementary Estimate. I also thank them for providing a briefing note...