Earlier Discharge, Better Outcomes, Lower Cost: A New Way To Deliver Healthcare In Ireland? The Example Of Stroke Rehabilitation.

Venue: ESRI, Whitaker Square, Sir John Rogerson’s Quay, Dublin 2.

PROGRAMME 

09.00 Welcome: Professor Frances Ruane, Director, ESRI; Mr Barry Dempsey, Chief Executive, Irish Heart Foundation 

09.10 Opening Address : Tony O'Brien, Director General, Health Service Executive

 SESSION 1 

Stroke Rehabilitation in Ireland and International Best Practice Chair: Dr. Aine Carroll (National Director, HSE Clinical Care Programmes) 

09.30 Still 11 Health Boards? Who receives care, where and how? Dr Maev-Ann Wren, ESRI 

10.00 Preferred pathways of stroke rehabilitation – evidence from international best practice Dr Maev-Ann Wren, ESRI; Ms Karen Kearns, ESRI 

10.30 Questions and Answers 

10.45 Tea/Coffee 

SESSION 2 

Economic evaluation of alternative pathways of stroke rehabilitation Chair: Dr John Devlin ( Department of Health) 

11.15 The role of economic evaluation in health care Dr Paddy Gillespie, NUIG

11.30 Economic evaluation of alternative pathways of stroke rehabilitation: findings and implications Dr Paddy Gillespie, NUIG; Dr Maev-Ann Wren, ESRI; Ms Siobhan Crichton, KCL

12.15 Recommendations for better stroke rehabilitation in Ireland Professor Anne Hickey, Dr Frances Horgan, RCSI, Respondent: Professor Joe Harbison, Joint Clinical Lead HSE Stroke Clinical Care Programme

12.45 Questions and Answers 

13.00 Close of Conference