Margaret Murphy O'Mahony (Cork South West, Fianna Fail)
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586. To ask the Minister for Health when the implementation plan for the national neuro-rehabilitation strategy will be published; if the HSE submitted the plan to his office in June 2018; and the reason for the delay in publishing it in view of the fact that he originally committed to publish the plan by June 2017. [45047/18]

Finian McGrath (Dublin Bay North, Independent)
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The Programme for a Partnership Government includes a commitment to publish a plan for advancing neuro-rehabilitation services in the community.

The Health Service Executive recently finalised its implementation framework in respect of the recommendations of the National Policy and Strategy for the provision of Neuro-Rehabilitation Services in Ireland 2011-2015. The framework was submitted by the HSE to the Minister for Health at the end of September 2018.

The framework will guide the reconfiguration and development of neuro-rehabilitation structures and services at national and local level. It proposes the formation of Managed Clinical Rehabilitation Networks (MCRNs), with the set-up of one demonstration MCRN suggested as the first step.