Children's Health Ireland - Patient safety concerns and reviews in paediatric orthopaedic surgical services: Statements, Questions and Answers
Dail Éireann — 2023-09-26
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Peadar Tóibín (AON), Meath West

Okay. We are going to have to disagree on that. Again, on the specialist element, Scotland has a large number of surgeons who specialise in complex spinal operations. Again, Ireland does not have that level of expertise. Ireland has all-rounders. It is understood that Temple Street did not have enough focus on that expertise. Is that not an issue we have to resolve coming out of this whole review system as it stands?

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