Health board ambulance service differences
Fitzpatrick noted that some boards let patients travel to Dublin by ambulance for a nominal fee, while others restrict service to health-card holders. Woods undertook to note the disparity, and Fitzpatrick criticized boards’ differing approaches to assistance.
(Cavan-Monaghan): Is the Minister aware that in some health board areas people coming to Dublin for treatment can avail of an ambulance service on payment of a nominal sum if there is a seat available and in other health board areas they are simply out if they have not got a health card?
Comment on this
I will make a note of that fact. There are quite a few other variations. Things vary in relation to size and density of the population in health board areas which is something I am concerned about, particularly in relation to the Eastern Health Board area.
Comment on this
(Cavan-Monaghan): In some health boards they consider what they can give and in others they consider what they can withhold.
