A
study of the past, present and potential for future co-operation
in health services across the Irish border by a research
team led by Dr Jim Jamison, formerly director of the Health
and Social Care Research Unit at Queen's University Belfast,
and including Professor Martin McKee of the London School
of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Dr Ciaran O' Neill of
the University of Ulster, and Ms Michelle Butler of the
Institute of Public Administration in Dublin. Among the
study's recommendations are:
- A
thorough assessment of the potential for co-operation
in specialist hospital services such as heart, lung and
other transplants, paediatric cardiac surgery and renal
dialysis
- An
assessment of how emergency services close to the border
might be improved by greater collaboration
- Much
greater co-operation in public health, particularly through
joint health promotion campaigns
- Development
of an all-Ireland health technology assessment
capacity.
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