David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein)
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670. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated amount of additional funding allocated to each of the national strategies and expert reviews as announced in budget 2021 broken down by amount for each strategy and review in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31418/20]

Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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Budget 2021 provides for an unprecedented strategic investment in healthcare which will significantly improve patient experiences and clinical outcomes. The funding provides the opportunity to deliver real and permanent improvements to acute healthcare provision.

The funding will serve to accelerate the implementation of a number of key national strategies, including the National Cancer Strategy, the National Maternity Strategy, the Trauma Strategy, the new Pædiatric Model of Care, the National Ambulance Service Strategic Plan and will provide for further development of organ donation and transplant services. This funding allocation is detailed in the table below. Through the implementation of these strategies and plans, we will fundamentally reform health service delivery and ensure that services are timely, responsive and patient centred and are developed in line with the Sláintecare vision.

The COVID-19 Nursing Homes Expert Panel as a matter of urgency have identified about 55 recommendations. These recommendations will have significant cost implications for the HSE and HIQA and nursing home providers, including the HSE. These agencies have highlighted difficulty in accurately costing some recommendations in the short-term as greater detail on operationalisation and policy direction of the recommendations will need to be developed further over the coming months. Given the wide-ranging nature of the recommendations and noting the requirement in some instances for considerable policy work to be advanced, €40 million is being provided in 2021 to deliver on the implementation commitments.