Health and social care supply and resource allocation planning in Ireland
Health researchers and policymakers from the ESRI, UCD, NUI Galway, the Department of Health and the HSE discussed issues of regional inequalities in healthcare supply, substitution between hospital and non-acute care and resource allocation decisions in the Irish health and social care system.
Conference Programme
Conference Programme
Introduction
8:30
Registration
9.00
Welcome
Prof. Alan Barrett (Director, ESRI)
9.10
Opening address
Jim Breslin (Secretary General, Department of Health)
An inter-sectoral analysis by geographic area of the need for and the supply and utilisation of health services in Ireland
Chair: Dr Maev-Ann Wren (Senior Research Officer, ESRI)
9.30
Geographic profile of healthcare needs and non-acute healthcare supply in Ireland
Dr Samantha Smith (Research Fellow, Trinity College Dublin)
10:00
An analysis of the effects on Irish hospital care of the supply of care inside, and outside, the hospital
Dr Brendan Walsh (Research Officer, ESRI)
10:30
Discussion
10:50
Tea / Coffee Break
Integration and resource allocation decisions for Ireland
Chair: Paul Reid (CEO, Health Service Executive)
11.15
Integrated care and national clinical programmes in Ireland
Prof. Áine Carroll, (Professor of Healthcare Integration and Improvement UCD & Consultant in Rehabilitation Medicine at the NRH)
11.45
Panel discussion on RICOs, resource allocation and acute/non-acute integration in Ireland
Speakers: Deirdre Collins (Department of Public Expenditure and Reform), Prof. Eamon O’Shea (NUIG), Michael Fitzgerald (HSE) and Dr Kathleen MacLellan (Department of Health)
Social Impact Assessment (SIA) Nursing Home Support Scheme
Deirdre Collins (Department of Public Expenditure and Reform)
Home care in Ireland
Prof. Eamon O’Shea (NUIG)
Services for older people: Integration & resource allocation
Michael Fitzgerald (HSE)
ESRI Health Policy Conference
Dr Kathleen MacLellan (Department of Health)
12:30
Discussion
12:45
Conference close