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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (8 May 2024)
Róisín Shortall: On a point of order, my understanding is that both the Department and the HSE were asked to concentrate on two particular areas. Is that right?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (8 May 2024)
Róisín Shortall: I take it that was communicated to them.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (8 May 2024)
Róisín Shortall: There was no mention of digital health from the Department and there was a brief mention from the HSE without an actual update on the framework. The other issue was population health and preventative health strategies, which was a major part of Sláintecare. That was not mentioned by either group.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (8 May 2024)
Róisín Shortall: We can speak to the clerk to the committee about that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (8 May 2024)
Róisín Shortall: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. I wish to start with the digital health framework. Where is that now?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (8 May 2024)
Róisín Shortall: What is the reason for the delay? This committee had two sessions over the past year or so on digital health and the importance of it. We were told that the framework would be published in September, and then we were told it would be in March. We are now into May. What was the reason for the delay?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (8 May 2024)
Róisín Shortall: We still do not know the reason for the delay. It is nine or ten months late now.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (8 May 2024)
Róisín Shortall: Can Mr. Watt tell me the reason for the delay?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (8 May 2024)
Róisín Shortall: What is the reason for not publishing the framework?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (8 May 2024)
Róisín Shortall: It is nine or ten months late.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (8 May 2024)
Róisín Shortall: That is fine but we have not seen the framework.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (8 May 2024)
Róisín Shortall: My question was why the framework is nine or ten months late in being published and we have not seen it yet. I have a question on EHRs. How is it proposed to integrate community and acute hospitals in respect of electronic health records?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (8 May 2024)
Róisín Shortall: When in 2025 is Mr. McCallion talking about having it fully activated?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (8 May 2024)
Róisín Shortall: Can the HSE send me a note on the timeline proposed? I want to move on to the issue of productivity. Much was made of the report that came out recently on additional funding and additional staffing for acute hospitals and the productivity increase not corresponding. How was productivity measured in that analysis?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (8 May 2024)
Róisín Shortall: It was a quantitative analysis.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (8 May 2024)
Róisín Shortall: Is value for money being examined in any respect? I have not seen any conclusions being drawn in that regard. I have some concern that substantial funding is going into the acutes and into the NTPF. Are we seeing a transfer of activity from public hospitals to the NTPF, which essentially amounts to outsourcing? Equally, this question arises in primary care diagnostics, where we have seen...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (8 May 2024)
Róisín Shortall: I am sorry, but how do we know there are record levels of care? Mr. Watt talked about the productivity not being in line with the additional funding and staffing.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (8 May 2024)
Róisín Shortall: But not in line with the additional funding. Is that not the finding?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (8 May 2024)
Róisín Shortall: I appreciate the complexity.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (8 May 2024)
Róisín Shortall: I appreciate it is very complex.