Results 12,901-12,920 of 24,567 for speaker:Róisín Shortall
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2016)
Róisín Shortall: He asks an interesting question though.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2016)
Róisín Shortall: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2016)
Róisín Shortall: Which is fair enough.
- Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: General Practice in Disadvantaged Areas (21 Sep 2016)
Róisín Shortall: I request members, delegates and observers in the Visitors Gallery to ensure their mobile phones are switched off completely because otherwise they can cause many problems for the recording staff. They can also cause interference with recordings. I welcome everyone to this our third day of public hearings on health care reform. Apologies have been received from Deputy Pat Buckley. In...
- Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: General Practice in Disadvantaged Areas (21 Sep 2016)
Róisín Shortall: I thank Dr. Delap and the other members of the delegation for their presentation, which was very sobering. We will start with Deputy Barry. Is the Deputy ready to proceed?
- Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: General Practice in Disadvantaged Areas (21 Sep 2016)
Róisín Shortall: Deputy O'Connell is next.
- Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: General Practice in Disadvantaged Areas (21 Sep 2016)
Róisín Shortall: I ask the witnesses to bank and note questions and I will bring in three committee members at a time.
- Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: General Practice in Disadvantaged Areas (21 Sep 2016)
Róisín Shortall: If the Deputy does not mind, we might leave that last point to be dealt with by the Joint Committee on Health. It is somewhat outside our remit.
- Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: General Practice in Disadvantaged Areas (21 Sep 2016)
Róisín Shortall: A deprivation index is available on a very small area basis. Literally half a housing estate is profiled and these data are available to the CSO and various other people.
- Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: General Practice in Disadvantaged Areas (21 Sep 2016)
Róisín Shortall: Deputy Brassil also asked for the percentage of patients from disadvantaged areas who are referred for hospital care.
- Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: General Practice in Disadvantaged Areas (21 Sep 2016)
Róisín Shortall: It is time to take questions from another group of members and I call Deputy Louise O'Reilly.
- Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: General Practice in Disadvantaged Areas (21 Sep 2016)
Róisín Shortall: There were a lot of big questions there.
- Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: General Practice in Disadvantaged Areas (21 Sep 2016)
Róisín Shortall: There are a couple of issues there. Obviously, it is about properly resourcing a diagnostic facility and having the full range of staff. The critical mass issue also arises. We need to revisit diagnostic services within primary care and the community and where it makes sense.
- Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: General Practice in Disadvantaged Areas (21 Sep 2016)
Róisín Shortall: Deputy Barry must leave to attend another committee meeting. Could the witnesses address the two questions he asked about double disadvantage and consultation time?
- Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: General Practice in Disadvantaged Areas (21 Sep 2016)
Róisín Shortall: In fairness to the HSE, when its IT group was before this committee last week, it gave a commitment that electronic referrals would be facilitated in all hospitals by April of next year. We will be holding the HSE to that.
- Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: General Practice in Disadvantaged Areas (21 Sep 2016)
Róisín Shortall: That is a valid point and I have often thought about it. Having a primary care centre in the middle of a community makes an important statement and allows for many other activities to take place, for example, evening courses to help people to stop smoking. It facilitates a greater approach to health promotion.
- Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: General Practice in Disadvantaged Areas (21 Sep 2016)
Róisín Shortall: As mentioned, it is difficult for a new GP to do that, unless there is funding behind him or her. That is why there is such a strong case to be made for having State-funded primary care centres. A couple of years ago I spoke to a group of trainee GPs who were keen to be at the cutting edge of medicine, but it was not possible for most of them to do so. What would they do about having...
- Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: General Practice in Disadvantaged Areas (21 Sep 2016)
Róisín Shortall: It is fair to say the contract does not cater adequately for out-of-hours services.
- Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: General Practice in Disadvantaged Areas (21 Sep 2016)
Róisín Shortall: Yes.
- Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: General Practice in Disadvantaged Areas (21 Sep 2016)
Róisín Shortall: The witnesses spoke about the distribution of resources. One of our work streams will examine the area of resource allocation. We propose to do a kind of socioeconomic profile of each of the community health care organisations, CHOs, and then look at where staff are allocated across primary care in order to identify where the big gaps exist. Ideally, we should be moving towards a situation...