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Wednesday, 20 April 2016

Photo of Brendan SmithBrendan Smith (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail)
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341. To ask the Minister for Health if there are proposals to provide additional services or new facilities at Cavan General Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7600/16]

Photo of Leo VaradkarLeo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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The establishment of acute hospitals into a small number of groups, each with its own governance and management, will provide an optimum configuration for hospital services to deliver high quality, safe patient care in a cost effective manner. It will allow integration and improve patient flow across the continuum of care. The reconfiguration of services across acute hospitals will facilitate the safe management of the majority of patients, who require only a routine, straightforward level of urgent or planned care, locally and the minority of patients, who require major emergency or more complex planned care, to be treated safely in acute regional or national centres where all the relevant specialist clinical expertise is available.

Any future investment in respect of Cavan/Monaghan Hospital will be considered within the overall acute hospital infrastructure programme and establishment of hospital groups. Each hospital group, including the RCSI Hospital Group of which Cavan/Monaghan Hospital is a member, will be required to develop a strategic plan to describe how it will provide more efficient and effective patient services and reorganise its services to provide optimal care to the populations it serves.

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