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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: The Role of Pharmacy Care in the Healthcare System: Irish Pharmacy Union (8 Mar 2023)

Seán Crowe: It was mentioned that 1 million appointments could be freed up by utilising the existing infrastructure of community pharmacists. Are the witnesses worried that people with minor ailments and, indeed, some more serious cases might find themselves walking through pharmacy doors? Are pharmacists up for that challenge?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: The Role of Pharmacy Care in the Healthcare System: Irish Pharmacy Union (8 Mar 2023)

Seán Crowe: The Ipsos MRBI survey on the most trusted healthcare providers was mentioned. That is reflected here. If the general public feel that pharmacists can be trusted, the politicians, certainly those in this room, would agree the system needs to be expanded. It is a matter of us collectively putting our heads together and asking some of those questions that need to be asked if there is clearly...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: The Role of Pharmacy Care in the Healthcare System: Irish Pharmacy Union (8 Mar 2023)

Seán Crowe: This is the first time I have heard the expression "prescription rights". We have heard of other rights but it makes sense that people would have access. That was one of the points made. As part of the meeting this morning, there was a proposal that today, International Women's Day, the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Health would call on the Minister for Health to take immediate steps to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: The Role of Pharmacy Care in the Healthcare System: Irish Pharmacy Union (8 Mar 2023)

Seán Crowe: Is there any way of speeding up the reimbursement process? Is that slow? Would that be helpful? Like everyone else, pharmacies are probably facing into difficult times with energy costs. We have already heard about increased transport costs from people who are supplying the medicines. At the end of the day, that is going to have an impact on the customer. Is there anything that the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: The Role of Pharmacy Care in the Healthcare System: Irish Pharmacy Union (8 Mar 2023)

Seán Crowe: There was no mention of it this morning but I am conscious that pharmacies helped to roll out the Stop Smoking campaign. Are there similar campaigns the IPU feels would be worthwhile to come under the umbrella of Irish pharmacies?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: The Role of Pharmacy Care in the Healthcare System: Irish Pharmacy Union (8 Mar 2023)

Seán Crowe: What is the pushback regarding the shingles vaccine? Members have expressed that it seems sensible to roll it out at that level. Where is the blockage in the system? Does the IPU have any insight into that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: The Role of Pharmacy Care in the Healthcare System: Irish Pharmacy Union (8 Mar 2023)

Seán Crowe: Please do not.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: The Role of Pharmacy Care in the Healthcare System: Irish Pharmacy Union (8 Mar 2023)

Seán Crowe: I appreciate the IPU witnesses appearing before the committee this morning. This was a very useful meeting. There are a number of actions the committee will follow through on, particularly in relation to oral contraceptives, on which we passed a motion. We will also provide an update on the minor illness schemes and try to find out about those. We will also try to find out from the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: The Role of Pharmacy Care in the Healthcare System: Irish Pharmacy Union (8 Mar 2023)

Seán Crowe: We thank the Irish Pharmacy Union members for the positive role they played, particularly during the Covid-19 epidemic. I also commend them on the fact that the Irish population are very supportive of the role of pharmacists. They are seen as the first port of call in the case of a minor illness and even in the cases of more difficult illnesses. People go to their pharmacists because they...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Centre for Health Policy and Management, Trinity College Dublin (1 Mar 2023)

Seán Crowe: Apologies have been received from Deputy Neasa Hourigan. Before we get to the main item on today's agenda, the minutes of the committee meetings of 15, 21 and 22 February 2023 have been circulated to members for approval. Are they agreed? Agreed. The purpose of today's meeting is for the joint committee to consider issues relating to the implementation of Sláintecare reforms with...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Centre for Health Policy and Management, Trinity College Dublin (1 Mar 2023)

Seán Crowe: I thank Dr. Burke and call Senator Martin Conway.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Centre for Health Policy and Management, Trinity College Dublin (1 Mar 2023)

Seán Crowe: Dr. Burke made the point that when the pandemic arrived, pretty much everyone involved in Sláintecare was redeployed to the health system response to Covid. Is she criticising-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Centre for Health Policy and Management, Trinity College Dublin (1 Mar 2023)

Seán Crowe: We all accept the importance of having a public health system that works and delivers. There is general consensus across the board on that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Centre for Health Policy and Management, Trinity College Dublin (1 Mar 2023)

Seán Crowe: It is probably important to we remind ourselves that there was so much that worked during the pandemic. Dr. Burke mentioned some of the innovative things, such as the GP diagnostics and so on, but there was much that did not work or deliver. There was talk about a single-tier health system, but we know that private beds were not fully utilised. Was there a pushback within the system, in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Centre for Health Policy and Management, Trinity College Dublin (1 Mar 2023)

Seán Crowe: Did it highlight a lack of flexibility within the service, that we did not fully utilise? We are still dealing with the waiting lists, such as those mentioned at the start. Some 900,000 people are waiting for appointments and 200,000 are waiting for scans. Much of that could have been done by utilising those beds, even though the health system was trying to save them for the awful day...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Centre for Health Policy and Management, Trinity College Dublin (1 Mar 2023)

Seán Crowe: We made the appeal for medical people to come home and get involved in the system. Many of them said they were not contacted. The system failed those people. They wished to get involved. You can only make those appeals so many times before they stop having an impact. It is a bit like clapping front-line workers. We said we would deliver childcare for them. That did not happen in most...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Centre for Health Policy and Management, Trinity College Dublin (1 Mar 2023)

Seán Crowe: One example of what frustrates elected representatives the most is when families try to get an assessment for children with special needs and, it is hoped, the supports will come. However, the team does not have the key people, it does not happen and people move to the private system to get an assessment. When they have the assessment, they think they will get the supports, but that does...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Centre for Health Policy and Management, Trinity College Dublin (1 Mar 2023)

Seán Crowe: Many of us remember the old health boards. People ask if RHAs will mean the same again. We discussed the importance in establishing RHAs of accountability so that it is not Paul Reid, Mr. Gloster or whoever who comes in and defends the situation by saying the system has collapsed in Sligo, Galway, Limerick or wherever else, but the CEOs of the regional authorities. Do the witnesses agree...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Centre for Health Policy and Management, Trinity College Dublin (1 Mar 2023)

Seán Crowe: The Committee on Health has members who feel strongly about it but we do not have the resources to drive this forward.