Hospital Waiting Lists
Dail Éireann — 2023-11-09
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Stephen Donnelly (FF), Wicklow

The short answer is "Yes". Clinicians are cautious about that option. It happened before. Children went to Germany before the Covid-19 pandemic. Clinicians are not opposed to that but they urge caution because these surgeries tend not to be a single episode in a theatre. Ongoing care is required and multiple surgeries can be required. Nonetheless, we are looking at what is called outsourcing. A good relationship is being built between the Boston Children's Hospital and CHI. What they call insourcing is also being looked at, which means that rather than the children and their families having to go abroad, potentially several times, we would bring additional consultants and expertise to Ireland and use the capacity we have so they can get the service they need here.

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Sitting date: 2023-11-09