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HSPC Day 2024 Minister Donnelly

On #HSPCDay2024, the Minister for Health acknowledges and thanks the 21,000 Health and Social Care Professionals working in our public health and social care service treating and helping patients everyday. @HSELive @WeHSCPs TRANSCRIPT: Hi there. I want to mark Health and Social Care Professional Day by acknowledging and thanking all of you - all of our Health and Social Care Professionals working right across our health and our social care services. This year's theme, "Health and Social Care Professionals Working in Partnership” - it really resonates with me as we begin implementing the Health Regions and reforms to achieve what we all want: universal healthcare - a country where all patients can get the care they need, when they need it. Partnership and integration are going to be vital in achieving this goal. I am fully committed to building and supporting the development of the healthcare workforce. This includes supporting the retention and the skill development of Health and Social Care Professionals. We made good progress over the last year in particular. I appointed the Chief Health and Social Care Professional Officer in May of last year. Work is continuing to develop policy on the introduction of advanced practice roles. But what we're looking at first is allowing trained physiotherapists, appropriately trained physiotherapists, to refer their patients for X-rays or radiological procedures. I've met with a lot of health and social care professionals. I've met with them across many different areas of hospitals and community settings. I hear consistently that expanding your scope of practice, embracing leadership roles and driving innovation to support your work will make a real difference to your patients. Working together, we want to ensure that we reduce hospital waiting times, help patients avoid hospitals, streamline care for chronic illnesses and of course improve the patient experience. Increasingly, the supply of health and social care professional graduates is essential. We've made important progress in increasing the number of student training places across Medicine, Nursing, Midwifery and Health and Social Care Professionals. We're going to continue with expanding these college places. Finally, can I use this opportunity on Health and Social Care Professional Day to thank you all. Thank you for your knowledge, your commitment, your enthusiasm, your skill and the care and professionalism that you bring to treating and caring for your patients, which we all know you demonstrate every single day. Have a great day.