Results 12,501-12,520 of 24,567 for speaker:Róisín Shortall
- Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Hospital Groups (16 Nov 2016)
Róisín Shortall: Is recruitment done as a group or by individual hospitals?
- Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Hospital Groups (16 Nov 2016)
Róisín Shortall: Has the group put those structures in place?
- Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Hospital Groups (16 Nov 2016)
Róisín Shortall: Does the hospital group have any community representation on those three committees?
- Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Hospital Groups (16 Nov 2016)
Róisín Shortall: Deputy Barry asked questions about the centralisation of emergency services at Cork University Hospital and the possibility of a new hospital for Cork.
- Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Hospital Groups (16 Nov 2016)
Róisín Shortall: Deputy Barry also asked about the new hospital for Cork.
- Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Hospital Groups (16 Nov 2016)
Róisín Shortall: As we have been here for more than four hours, I want to bring the meeting to a close as quickly as possible. I ask the remaining speakers, Deputies Kelleher, Harty and O'Connell, to keep it very tight.
- Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Hospital Groups (16 Nov 2016)
Róisín Shortall: On the Deputy's second-last question, major issues arise with regard to the governance and ownership of the various elements of the health service. We have inherited a system with a significant number of voluntary hospitals which operate independently. There is no doubt that serious governance issues arise in this regard and that these issues need to be addressed. They complicate the...
- Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Hospital Groups (16 Nov 2016)
Róisín Shortall: I ask the other witnesses to pick up very briefly on the outstanding issues such as the question of voluntary hospitals and how they work and the role of private hospitals within their group area.
- Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Hospital Groups (16 Nov 2016)
Róisín Shortall: I asked a question about the role of private hospitals.
- Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Hospital Groups (16 Nov 2016)
Róisín Shortall: Could Ms Day address the issue of Ireland East hospital group, specifically in respect of Navan?
- Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Hospital Groups (16 Nov 2016)
Róisín Shortall: The point is that in sending patients to Navan, the hospital group is passing Beaumont Hospital. There does not seem to be much logic to the group's-----
- Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Hospital Groups (16 Nov 2016)
Róisín Shortall: I know, but why does an overlap between the different groups exist? There does not seem to be much logic to it geographically.
- Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Hospital Groups (16 Nov 2016)
Róisín Shortall: In the groups.
- Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Hospital Groups (16 Nov 2016)
Róisín Shortall: At integration pace, it is impossible to have that.
- Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Hospital Groups (16 Nov 2016)
Róisín Shortall: Just to clarify, when we talk about integration, we are mainly talking about integration between primary and secondary care, not integration within the group.
- Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Hospital Groups (16 Nov 2016)
Róisín Shortall: To clarify, this refers to the Dublin Academic Medical Centre?
- Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Hospital Groups (16 Nov 2016)
Róisín Shortall: Could someone respond to Deputy Kelleher's question about the status of Waterford.
- Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Hospital Groups (16 Nov 2016)
Róisín Shortall: I ask Mr. Woods to be very brief. I hope we will be able to schedule a meeting in two weeks time.
- Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Hospital Groups (16 Nov 2016)
Róisín Shortall: A directory of services for whom?
- Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Hospital Groups (16 Nov 2016)
Róisín Shortall: In fairness, I think the jury is out on that issue which is raised with us week after week. We know from our constituencies that it is problematic, to say the least. I thank the delegates for their time and appearing before the committee. As I know that they have been here since 9 a.m., it has been a long day. I thank them for their presentations.