Results 12,921-12,940 of 24,567 for speaker:Róisín Shortall
- Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: General Practice in Disadvantaged Areas (21 Sep 2016)
Róisín Shortall: Does Dr. Gibney think there is an acceptance that there is a need for a weighted system of resource allocation?
- 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: That is encouraging.
- Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: General Practice in Disadvantaged Areas (21 Sep 2016)
Róisín Shortall: We do need to bring that forward.
- Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: General Practice in Disadvantaged Areas (21 Sep 2016)
Róisín Shortall: That is an important point and we should list it for discussion later on.
- Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: General Practice in Disadvantaged Areas (21 Sep 2016)
Róisín Shortall: Finally, I call Deputy Joan Collins.
- Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: General Practice in Disadvantaged Areas (21 Sep 2016)
Róisín Shortall: There is a great deal of scope for review of that kind of arrangement.
- Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: General Practice in Disadvantaged Areas (21 Sep 2016)
Róisín Shortall: I thank the witnesses very much for their presentations. They were exceptional. What the witnesses have said will leave a strong impression with us in terms of our recommendations for the future. We thank them for their time - they have been very generous with it - and for answering all of the questions put to them so thoroughly. Sitting suspended at 10.50 a.m. and resumed at 11.10 a.m.
- Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Relationship between Primary Care and Secondary Care (21 Sep 2016)
Róisín Shortall: I warmly welcome Dr. Ronan Fawsitt, chairman of St. Luke's local integrated care committee, and Professor Garry Courtney, clinical director of St. Luke's General Hospital, Carlow-Kilkenny, who will present us with a briefing on the Carlow-Kilkenny model of care. I welcome them both and thank them for coming along. I wish to advise the witnesses that by virtue of section 17(2)(l) of the...
- Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Relationship between Primary Care and Secondary Care (21 Sep 2016)
Róisín Shortall: I thank the witnesses for their impressive presentation. Reference was made to the importance of direct GP access to different hospital services. How is that different from what is happening in other areas? We are all familiar with constituents contacting us where there is an 18-month waiting list to see a specialist. We refer them back to the GP and get him or her to seek access and to...
- Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Relationship between Primary Care and Secondary Care (21 Sep 2016)
Róisín Shortall: I thank the witnesses. I invite members to contribute in groups of three. We will bank the questions and deal with them in that way.
- Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Relationship between Primary Care and Secondary Care (21 Sep 2016)
Róisín Shortall: The Deputies asked many questions. I invite the witnesses to respond to them.
- Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Relationship between Primary Care and Secondary Care (21 Sep 2016)
Róisín Shortall: It is not unrelated to recruitment problems.
- Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Relationship between Primary Care and Secondary Care (21 Sep 2016)
Róisín Shortall: Apart from medics, who else attended the meeting?
- Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Relationship between Primary Care and Secondary Care (21 Sep 2016)
Róisín Shortall: When Dr. Fawsitt refers to GP-led primary care services, is he talking about the model in which allied health professionals would be employed as public sector workers?
- Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Relationship between Primary Care and Secondary Care (21 Sep 2016)
Róisín Shortall: Sometimes those who talk about GP-led primary care serices talk about the general practitioner employing people. Is that the model about which the delegation is talking?
- Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Relationship between Primary Care and Secondary Care (21 Sep 2016)
Róisín Shortall: A mobile phone is causing interference.
- Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Relationship between Primary Care and Secondary Care (21 Sep 2016)
Róisín Shortall: That is a very good question. I call Deputy Louise O'Reilly.
- Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Relationship between Primary Care and Secondary Care (21 Sep 2016)
Róisín Shortall: Dr. Fawsitt and Professor Courtney might address those points.
- Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Relationship between Primary Care and Secondary Care (21 Sep 2016)
Róisín Shortall: Is there an estimate of the level of chronic disease management that is currently taking place in hospitals? What is the split between hospitals and the community setting?