Harris and Donnelly to meet representatives for children on waiting lists for spinal surgeries [Video]

PARENTS AND REPRESENTATIVES of children who remain on prolonged spinal surgery waiting lists, are to meet with the Taoiseach, the Minister for Health, the head of the Health Service Executive, as well as the head of a HSE task-force on children’s spinal surgeries, on Monday, over ongoing “issues” in the provision of the children’s care.

A notice published on Children’s Health Ireland’s (CHI’s) website, on September 13th, stated that CHI – which is responsible for the provision of care of children in hospital in Ireland – was not in a position to publish its own spinal surgery waiting and activity lists for last August, which were due to be published on Friday, 6th September.

CHI has apologised and said that publishing the lists was “regrettably delayed because it was aligning the lists with a “reporting structure” currently used by the National Treatment Purchase Fund, a government body, which was established …