{"id":3456,"date":"2018-05-04T14:29:09","date_gmt":"2018-05-04T14:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/?p=3456"},"modified":"2018-05-08T10:30:07","modified_gmt":"2018-05-08T10:30:07","slug":"haemorrhage-dialysis-unit-in-tallaght-hospital-lacks-capacity-crowe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/haemorrhage-dialysis-unit-in-tallaght-hospital-lacks-capacity-crowe\/","title":{"rendered":"Haemodialysis unit in Tallaght Hospital lacks capacity \u2013 Crowe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dublin South West Sinn F\u00e9in TD, Se\u00e1n Crowe, raised the severe lack of capacity in the haemodialysis unit in Tallaght Hospital, in the D\u00e1il, and said an explanation is\u00a0needed into why plans for new unit were pulled.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Se\u00e1n Crowe\u00a0said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cTallaght Hospital is the regional centre of excellence for the Dublin Midlands hospital group and\u00a0provides regional services such as 24-hour acute kidney dialysis care and home dialysis therapies. However the crux of the problem is that the dialysis unit in Tallaght has insufficient capacity to meet requirements, and in my opinion it\u00a0is not compliant with the Department of Health&#8217;s own regulations.\u00a0 There is also a critical\u00a0shortage of capacity to deliver high dependency dialysis in the region.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDialysis activity at Tallaght Hospital has increased to more than 30,000 dialysis treatments per year. However it only has a designed capacity for 9,000 treatments a year. The remainder were delivered in satellite dialysis units.\u00a0 This is private, costly and represents an unacceptable clinical risk to patients.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI asked the Minister for Health how much we were paying for these private dialysis services and I was told that it cost over \u20ac4 million in 2017.\u00a0 That does not include the added transport costs for dialysis patients, which was an extra \u20ac1.2 million.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3457 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Dialysis-D\u00e1il-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Dialysis-D\u00e1il-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Dialysis-D\u00e1il-768x433.jpg 768w, http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Dialysis-D\u00e1il.jpg 852w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe heart of the matter is that there was an agreement to go ahead with a new unit.\u00a0 It was agreed in 2017 and then inexplicably\u00a0cancelled in January 2018.\u00a0 The failure to build it is impacting on patients, health care costs, and the hard pressed staff within the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI cannot understand why the project has not gone ahead.\u00a0 We need answers.\u00a0 The space is there and it is ready to go.\u00a0 I talked to the local authority officials\u00a0and there are no difficulties with planning permission.\u00a0 It is up to the HSE and, more importantly, the Minister to explain why the project has not gone ahead and when it\u00a0actually will.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe staff are doing fantastic and lifesaving work, but it is clear that the original\u00a0unit has seen its day.\u00a0 I am also extremely\u00a0concerned about cross-infection.\u00a0 If the unit is not compliant with Department of Health\u2019s own infection guidelines, then there is a responsibility on them to authorise the building of a new unit. It is absolute madness that the current system is squandering scarce money on private services when an alternative could be available within the public health system.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dublin South West Sinn F\u00e9in TD, Se\u00e1n Crowe, raised the severe lack of capacity in the haemodialysis unit in Tallaght Hospital, in the D\u00e1il, and said an explanation is\u00a0needed into why plans for new unit were pulled. Deputy Se\u00e1n Crowe\u00a0said: \u201cTallaght Hospital is the regional centre of excellence for the Dublin Midlands hospital group and\u00a0provides [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,166,181],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-hse","category-tallaght-hospital"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3456"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3461,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3456\/revisions\/3461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}