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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 May 2019)

Simon Harris: That is an important point.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 May 2019)

Simon Harris: To be clear, the HSE leadership team did not reject Spinraza last month. It deferred the decision to early June. The HSE leadership chose not to reject or accept but to come back to the issue.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 May 2019)

Simon Harris: No. I signed Ireland up to BeNeLuxA. What is correct to say is that the other countries in BeNeLuxA, through their own processes, have bought it. It is not correct to say BeNeLuxA has bought it and we have opted out. The Senator is right that the other BeNeLuxA members have reimbursed the drug through their own processes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 May 2019)

Simon Harris: I will call on Dr. Henry to respond in a moment because he has a good knowledge of the HSE's response to this. I had a good meeting with OACS Ireland. I have told OACS in person and in writing that there are three priorities. The first has been to ensure that Ireland acts speedily on the EMA advice and warnings, which we have been doing and I think considerable progress has been made in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 May 2019)

Simon Harris: I agree. The issue that needs to be considered before we establish any inquiry is whether it would provide any added benefit considering this was not a specifically Irish issue.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 May 2019)

Simon Harris: I need to consider that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 May 2019)

Simon Harris: I do not know the specific case to which the Senator refers but we need to be careful about the difference between misdiagnosis and the limitations of medicine and of screening and diagnostic tools. We are beginning to have a big debate on this. I am starting to wonder if we are reaching a point in modern medicine where doctors use the tools available and some of those tools have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 May 2019)

Simon Harris: There is a responsibility on us to be very careful we do not represent something that may be a limitation of medicine. We have been talking about screening for a long time. We know that a false positive or negative is not a misdiagnosis or a missed cancer. Similarly we know there are limitations to medicine. Dr. Henry, as chief clinical officer in the HSE, may give the Senator more specifics.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 May 2019)

Simon Harris: If I may comment on the Waterford mortuary situation before I leave. I am very grateful to Ms Rothwell for being here today and for her leadership in the hospital in Waterford. She has taken very swift action to improve the situation including putting an interim solution in place. It is now on site and is greatly assisting. It is important that the new HSE director general visited the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 May 2019)

Simon Harris: I can stay for about five minutes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 May 2019)

Simon Harris: I am looking at my HSE colleagues. I am not aware that there is a private entrance. I was aware that there were some rooms that would be used and that consultants would pay for.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 May 2019)

Simon Harris: Can anyone answer this?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 May 2019)

Simon Harris: I agree that there should not be a private entrance. There is not a private entrance to any children's hospital today and there should not be.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 May 2019)

Simon Harris: I will take that away and will write to the committee on it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 May 2019)

Simon Harris: Is Dr. Henry best placed to answer?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 May 2019)

Simon Harris: No, I do not accept their position. Consultation did take place with the Department. I also have an email form the Irish Dental Association welcoming the strategy. I am happy to show that letter to the Deputy. I want to be constructive on this, however, and it is fair to say that we will have to negotiate how we will pay dentists to deliver the strategy. Consultations were held with my...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 May 2019)

Simon Harris: I am happy that we have come back to Deputy Donnelly on this. I know what the Deputy wants and I am happy to provide it to the Joint Committee on Health, namely, the cost of delivering the individual elements of Sláintecare. The reason there is no single document outlining the costs is that several parts of Sláintecare present different options. There are also several parts of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 May 2019)

Simon Harris: At the end of July.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 May 2019)

Simon Harris: I have heard similar concerns. I met Children's Health Ireland, CHI, on this recently. To make the obvious point, outpatient clinics will be provided in the satellite centres that are being provided in the children's hospitals today. Obviously Dr. X, who provides a service in one of the hospitals, will go out to the new outpatient centre to provide his clinics. That movement will take...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 May 2019)

Simon Harris: Yes, I am satisfied that it will bring additionality rather than pressures.