Denis Naughten (Roscommon-Galway, Independent)
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1343. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients that have availed of the Portiuncula cardiac outreach service funded under a Sláintecare Integration Fund grant in each of the four primary care centres (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42483/21]

Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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The Portiuncula cardiac outreach service project has a cardiac investigation piece (diagnostic tests) and a nursing service piece. The number of patients who attended a Primary Care Centre (PCC) for cardiac investigations for either an echo or a holter monitor is as follows (a small number of patients would have attended for both tests):

The integrated nursing service saw a total of 331 patients across all primary care centres. The location of each patient’s ‘local’ PCC is noted below, but some patients may have attended more than one PCC, depending on the urgency of need to be seen and the availability of a clinic in an individual PCC:

As of 1 July, the project has successfully transitioned from the Sláintecare Integration Fund to recurrent funding from the HSE through the Enhanced Community Care (ECC) Fund.