Primary Care Centres

Thursday, 9 September 2021

Questions (1343)

Denis Naughten

Question:

1343. Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Health the number of patients that have availed of the Portiuncula cardiac outreach service funded under a Sláintecare Integration Fund grant in each of the four primary care centres (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42483/21]

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Minister for Health

The Portiuncula cardiac outreach service project has a cardiac investigation piece (diagnostic tests) and a nursing service piece. The number of patients who attended a Primary Care Centre (PCC) for cardiac investigations for either an echo or a holter monitor is as follows (a small number of patients would have attended for both tests):

PCC	No. of pts
Ballinasloe	212
Portumna	42
Mountbellew	196
Monksland	185
Total	635

The integrated nursing service saw a total of 331 patients across all primary care centres. The location of each patient’s ‘local’ PCC is noted below, but some patients may have attended more than one PCC, depending on the urgency of need to be seen and the availability of a clinic in an individual PCC:

PCC	No. of pts
Ballinasloe	113
Portumna	29
Mountbellew	68
Monksland	121
Total	331

As of 1 July, the project has successfully transitioned from the Sláintecare Integration Fund to recurrent funding from the HSE through the Enhanced Community Care (ECC) Fund.