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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE National Service Plan 2024: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)
.... In every emergency department that I have visited, I always look at the layout, even in terms of the limitations of the space that might be available. I have been to Wexford, Naas, Limerick and Cork and have visited most emergency departments. They are all different and have different types of challenges, but there is no doubt that antisocial or unruly behaviour is a challenge for all...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE National Service Plan 2024: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)
...December right up to and including last week. While Limerick is very visible in the headlines, there are also other hospitals under significant pressure, including Galway University Hospital and Cork University Hospital. We would simply be taking the pressure off one to try to help with the pressure on another, and it could have unintended consequences. There is not that scale of an...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE National Service Plan 2024: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: I want to return to something we have spoken about a lot at the committee, namely, the provision of long-term residential facilities for mental health, particularly in Cork. I acknowledge the seriousness with which the HSE listened to the communities and the concerns and needs of the service users and their families. The way ahead is certainly very encouraging for the community,...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE National Service Plan 2024: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)
...way the intention around the 50-bed unit has been described to me is very different from what the traditional view might be. The expansion of road network, bus and other services in that part of Cork will make it a much more accessible location. The whole idea is not to go back to institutional walls. The design would very much accommodate this. Let me set it out for Deputy Hourigan in...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE National Service Plan 2024: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)
...has improved that chance substantially. There will always be a variation. In some parts of the country, we are totally dependent on section 38 and section 39 organisations, such as in Cork, and in other parts of the country we are not, like Donegal. It is a very variable quantity but it is an interesting question and we will certainly get the data.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE National Service Plan 2024: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)
...surgery to seven months, and a three month wait for surgery. We have shifted what was a hospital-based model of care for ophthalmology out into the community, to centres like Ballincollig, County Cork, where people are being seen for paediatric eye problems, assessment for cataracts and macular problems. They do not need to go to hospital. Those who are filtered through that who need...