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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues and Challenges relating to Cardiology: Irish Cardiac Society (23 Oct 2024)
Róisín Shortall: The likelihood is, even if there is cognisance taken of European developments, that we are talking about developing a new strategy, which would likely take some time.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues and Challenges relating to Cardiology: Irish Cardiac Society (23 Oct 2024)
Róisín Shortall: That issue will not change quickly, unfortunately. We have been looking for the health strategy to be implemented for a long time. Regarding the recent session in Budapest, given the importance of cardiovascular disease and the fact it is the second biggest contributor to mortality, it strikes me, and it is disappointing, that the senior Minister was not there. That is just a comment. ...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues and Challenges relating to Cardiology: Irish Cardiac Society (23 Oct 2024)
Róisín Shortall: Yes, but what is the split?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues and Challenges relating to Cardiology: Irish Cardiac Society (23 Oct 2024)
Róisín Shortall: I would also add in the commercial determinants of health. We have been doing a lot of work on that and issues related to drinking, smoking, fast food and all of that. There are big commercial pressures brought to bear on government related to that. I think the area of commercial determinants should be included in that because there is those big industries have considerable access to...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues and Challenges relating to Cardiology: Irish Cardiac Society (23 Oct 2024)
Róisín Shortall: Okay, but at the end of that Professor McAdam is saying only 5% of people have inherited conditions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues and Challenges relating to Cardiology: Irish Cardiac Society (23 Oct 2024)
Róisín Shortall: What does the screening entail? Is it very costly or why is it so underdeveloped?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues and Challenges relating to Cardiology: Irish Cardiac Society (23 Oct 2024)
Róisín Shortall: For child screening, when or how is that done?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues and Challenges relating to Cardiology: Irish Cardiac Society (23 Oct 2024)
Róisín Shortall: Could it be included in that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues and Challenges relating to Cardiology: Irish Cardiac Society (23 Oct 2024)
Róisín Shortall: Okay. I want to pick up on some of the points made about testing diagnostics generally. Are cardiac diagnostic services not included in the new primary care diagnostics initiative, that is, the direct referrals?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues and Challenges relating to Cardiology: Irish Cardiac Society (23 Oct 2024)
Róisín Shortall: That makes sense. I completely agree with Dr. Murphy's point that we should be developing our own services within each RHA instead of the outsourcing.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues and Challenges relating to Cardiology: Irish Cardiac Society (23 Oct 2024)
Róisín Shortall: It reaches a tipping point then and the public service is always inadequate. I want to go back for a minute to that question of the prescribing of injectable cholesterol-lowering treatments. What is the position? Presumably, we know high cholesterol is very prevalent. What happens if a person is being prescribed that treatment? Does that mean they can eat and drink whatever they like?...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues and Challenges relating to Cardiology: Irish Cardiac Society (23 Oct 2024)
Róisín Shortall: They are only allowed after the event, as it were, and not as a prevention measure.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues and Challenges relating to Cardiology: Irish Cardiac Society (23 Oct 2024)
Róisín Shortall: Okay.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues and Challenges relating to Cardiology: Irish Cardiac Society (23 Oct 2024)
Róisín Shortall: Are there any generic medicines coming on stream any time soon on that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues and Challenges relating to Cardiology: Irish Cardiac Society (23 Oct 2024)
Róisín Shortall: That is an important issue we may pursue as a committee.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in the HSE: Fórsa (23 Oct 2024)
David Cullinane: The witnesses are very welcome and I thank them for their opening statement. I ask them to clear up some confusion in this area. Anyone listening to this discussion in recent months will have seen a lot of smoke and mirrors. On the one hand, the Minister for Health has been telling us we have never had it so good with all of this recruitment that we have seen over the last number of years,...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in the HSE: Fórsa (23 Oct 2024)
David Cullinane: When the Minister for Health was before the committee last week I put it to him that if he disputed the figures from the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation, SIPTU, Fórsa or any other organisation on suppressed, lost or decommissioned posts, he should provide the real number and I did not get an answer. Is the lack of an answer because the data is not being captured or does the HSE...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in the HSE: Fórsa (23 Oct 2024)
David Cullinane: I accept that. Ms Connolly spoke about a lack of transparency about the data underpinning the pay and numbers strategy and the other healthcare trade unions have made a similar point. She made another important point, which should be noted, that HSE HR was directed to essentially switch off the vacancies on the SAP payroll system. If vacant posts are switched off and gone, is the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in the HSE: Fórsa (23 Oct 2024)
David Cullinane: Are these posts that were marked as vacant on the HSE's SAP payroll system?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in the HSE: Fórsa (23 Oct 2024)
David Cullinane: They have just vanished.