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THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE of the HSE will appear before an Oireachtas committee today to face questions on whether the service is delivering value for money.
Cathal Magee will answer questions from TDs and senators on the Public Accounts Committee. They are expected to focus especially on concerns about the Fair Deal scheme to fund nursing home care, and the roll-out of Primary Care Teams involving GPs.
Committee chair John McGuinness TD said he understood numerous GPs in the north-east had withdrawn from the PCT scheme because they were dissatisfied with it.
“I have a concern that these Primary Care Teams are not working as intended,” he said. “The major problem is in getting GPs to come on board. In addition, some of these teams do not have the full complement of staff such as physiotherapists and occupational therapists attached to them.”
In a statement, the committee said the PCT system – designed to bring different specialists together to care for patients – had “lagged behind schedule” in its implementation.
The committee will also quiz Magee on the “prohibitive” high cost of public nursing home care compared to its private equivalent, McGuinness said.
“Under Fair deal, the private sector is delivering the care and the cost of care in public facilities is prohibitive. We will want to establish how best value can be delivered.”
The meeting will begin at 10am.
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Mmm 5.8% with no government, interesting, very interesting,….
Think Italy are due to hold another €8 billion auction tomorrow? Interesting times a head….
Roads and cans come to mind. But when it reaches the end of the cul de sac that’s when another adage comes to mind ventilation equipment and human waste.
I get the impression that the IMF will start to play a much bigger role in all of this, because much less politics involved with them and its in the interest of most countries in the world to contribute to the IMF to save ours and other countries, because if the Euro collapses it will drag down everyone except for mongolia perhaps!
I think the Euro crisis would bring the IMF down. America is in no position to give a marshall plan as they need one themselves. Cant see China footing the bill either.
You could be right, but if they have the money they would be better of lending it to save the economies under strict IMF bailout conditions. This way they keep every thing afloat and earn interest on their cash. If they don’t then All economies will suffer more including China, and I’m guessing they want their current prosperity to continue for a long time yet.
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