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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)
Róisín Shortall: When does Mr. Sinnott expect to have it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)
Róisín Shortall: Again they are just vague responses. I want to move on because I am running out of time. It concerns new consultant contract. It is very welcome that there has been such a large uptake of it in spite of the committee being told initially that nobody would be interested in it. It is a very attractive contract. We have 272 new consultants at this point. There will be a further 921 who...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)
Róisín Shortall: It is because these consultants who change over will not be doing the private work and they will not be allowed to up to do 20% private work. Is that the case?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)
Róisín Shortall: They will still need to do 35 hours-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)
Róisín Shortall: -----in the public system.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)
Róisín Shortall: That is an extra 20% of consultant capacity. Is not that the case?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)
Róisín Shortall: No, I am talking hours worked on public patients.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)
Róisín Shortall: So there will be an extra 20%-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)
Róisín Shortall: -----in terms of capacity or there should be, theoretically anyway.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)
Róisín Shortall: Sure but it is patients receiving care.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)
Róisín Shortall: Public patients receiving care from consultants who are paid publicly.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)
Róisín Shortall: That is the extra 20% capacity.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)
Róisín Shortall: Then there is the 272. It is the equivalent of an additional 450 consultants if you take that additional capacity plus the people who can come on to the contract.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)
Róisín Shortall: Yes, for public work, which is very significant.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)
Róisín Shortall: What arrangements are in place to oversee that? What are the governance arrangements to ensure that we get that additional capacity? When we had a previous new contract - the Harney contract - all these supervisory posts were created where they were supposed to report to the HSE and then report to the hospital groups but then we did not get any reporting any more. What is the oversight of...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)
Róisín Shortall: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)
Róisín Shortall: With whom do they agree the work plan?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)
Róisín Shortall: Who does the clinical director report to?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)
Róisín Shortall: A lot of the hospitals are voluntary hospitals, essentially private or outside the public hospital system. Where does that data come back into the public arena to ensure that we are getting value for money?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)
Róisín Shortall: Are those reports published?