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Campaigners call for scrapping of Hanly Report

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  • 24-03-2005 5:36pm
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    ishmael whale
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    http://www.breakingnews.ie/2005/03/24/story195139.html
    Campaigners call for scrapping of Hanley Report
    ”Action groups opposed to the downgrading of local hospital services have called for the controversial Hanley Report to be scrapped by the Government, it emerged today. The Oireachtas Health Committee today heard submissions on the 2003 blueprint which called for the centralisation of local hospital services….. Dr Barton …. called for the Government to embrace telemedicine technology whereby doctors can discuss patient care via video link…..”

    At this stage the name “Hanly” is probably too political, so that even if the reforms were to be proceeded with they’d have to be called something else.

    But the suggestion that telemedicine should be deployed suggests that some campaigners recognise the essential philosophy of Hanly – that small hospitals don’t have the scale to sustain the expertise necessary to provide a extensive array of services.

    The other aspect, from what I can gather from the link below, telemedicine has as much to do with enabling, say, GPs to have access to specialist services as it has to do with networking small hospitals. Potentially, telemedicine might ironically make some local hospital services redundant as it would make it feasible for some consultations/patient visits to take place in health centres.

    http://www.atmeda.org/news/definition.html


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